THE LOSS OF RHODES ad. 



1522. 

 was sayd and done among us. And also an Albanese 

 fled to the enemies campe, and warned them not to go, 

 for the gunshot was nigh wasted, and that the most part 

 of the knights and people should be theirs shortly. 



In like sort then wrote the abovesayd Chanceller Sir 

 Andrew de Merall, whose treason as then was not 

 knowen : but when it commeth to the effect of his 

 treason, I shall shew the knowledge that he gave to the 

 enemies at divers times. 



When the bashas and captaines of the hoste understood 

 the sayd warnings, they all purposed for to tary, and 

 caused those tidings of the towne to be knowen over all 

 the army. And beganne againe to shoot artillery faster 

 then ever they did, for new shot was come into the 

 campe. Then Mustafa Bassha being in despaire that he 

 could do nothing by mines, by gunshot, nor by assaults, 

 he being ready to depart for to goe into Surey by the 

 great Turkes commandement, before his departing hee 

 thought once againe to assay his adventure, and made 

 three assaults three dayes together. The first was on a 

 Saturday the fourth day of October an houre before 

 night. The other on Sunday in the morning. And the 

 third on Munday after dinner. And the sayd three 

 assaults were made to the bulwarke of England. And it 

 was assailed but with stones and bagges full of artificiall 

 fire. And at these three assaults many of our men were 

 hurt with the sayd fire, and with the stones that came as 

 thicke as raine or haile. But in the end the enemies got 

 nothing but strokes, and returned into their trenches evill 

 contented, and murmuring, and sware by their Mahomet 

 that Mustafa Bassha shoulde not make them to mount 

 any more to the sayd bulwarke. And that it was great 

 folly for them to cause them to be slaine at the will and 

 fantasie of one man. These wordes sayd in Greeke by 

 some of the enemies were heard of our men as they went 

 downe from the bulwarke. And because (as it is sayd) 

 that the enemies at the assaults that were made, came 

 up by the earth and stones that fell from the breaches, 



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