THE LOSS OF RHODES a.d. 



1522. 

 fustes : the which vessels set men on land in ye isle of 

 Lango. Then the prior of S. Giles, Messire pre John 

 de Bidoux commander of the sayd place, taried not long 

 from horsebacke with his knights and people of the isle, 

 and he met so well with the Turkes, that he drove them 

 to their ships, and slew a certaine number of them : and 

 of the side of Pre John some were hurt, and his horse 

 was slaine. When the enemies were entered into their 

 gallies, they went to a place called castle Judeo on the 

 maine land, betweene the sayd isle of Lango and the 

 castle of S. Peter. 



How part of the navie and armie of the great 

 Turke came before the citie of Rhodes. 



THe 18. day of the said moneth of June, these 30- 

 gallies went from the sayd place, and passed by the 

 Cape of Crion, entering the gulfe of Epimes beside 

 Rhodes, and were discovered from the shade of the hill 

 of Salaco, a castle in the isle of Rhodes. On the morow 

 they came out of the gulfe by plaine day, and sailing 

 along by the coasts, they entered into a haven on maine 

 land called Malfata, where they abode three dayes. Then [II. i. 78. 

 they went from thence, and returned to the gulfe of 

 Epimes, where they abode two dayes and two nights. 



The 24 day of the same moneth they issued out of 

 Epimes, and traversing the chanell, they came to the yle 

 of Rhodes in a place before a castle called Faves, and they 

 went to land, and burnt a great field of corne the same 

 day, which was the feast of S. John Baptist our patron. 

 The guard of a castle named Absito in the yle of Rhodes 

 discovered and spied the great hoste, and in great haste 

 brought word to the lord master, and sayd that the sayd 

 hoste, that was in so great number of sailes that they 

 might not be numbred, was entred into the gulfe of 

 Epimes. The 30 sailes that lay in the yle arose in the 

 night, and went to the sayd hoste in the gulfe. 



The 26 day of June the sayd great hoste arose and 

 went out of Epimes an houre after the sun rising, & 



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