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and give them courage. Wherby he did moderate his 

 anger, and left him for that time, and thought to send 

 him to Cairo, least the people there would rebell, by 

 occasion of the captaine of Cairo which died a few dayes 

 before. Howbeit he departed not so suddenly, and or he 

 went he thought to assay if he might do some thing for 

 to please the Turke, aswell for his honour as for to save 

 his person, and was marvellous diligent to make mines at 

 the bulwarke of England for to overthrow it. And by 

 account were made 1 1 mines aswell to the sayd bulwarke 

 as elswhere, beside them spoken of before, and that they 

 had fired. But the most part of the sayd mines came to 

 no proofe though they put fire in them, and many were 

 met with countermines, and broken by our men by the 

 good diligence and sollicitude of sir Gabriel Du-chef 

 steward of the house of the lord great master, which had 

 the charge of the sayd countermines at the same bulwarke. 

 In the which businesse he behaved himselfe well and 

 worthily, and spared not his goods to cause the people to 

 worke and travell, but spent thereof largely. 



How the Turks v^ere minded to have gone their 

 way, and of the traitours within the towne, 

 and of many great assaults. 



THe Turks seeing that by mining they were nothing 

 furthered, nor might not come to their intentions, 

 and having but small store of gunpowder, were in de- 

 liberation and minde to have raised the siege, and gone 

 their way. And in deed some of them bare their cariages 

 toward the shippes : and also certaine number of people 

 went out of the trenches with their standards straight to 

 the ships. And it was written unto us from the campe 

 how the Janissaries and other of the host would fight no 

 more : and that they were almost all of one opinion for 

 to go away, save some of the captaines of the foresayd 

 Mustafa Bassha or Acmek Bassha. And in the meane 

 season the false traitours that were in the towne wrote 

 letters to the campe, giving them knowledge of all that 



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