THE LOSS OF RHODES ad. 



1522. 

 men that day, and many were maimed. Among all other 

 that lost any member, messieur John de le Touz called 

 Pradines, being at the sayd bulwarke, with a stroke of 

 artillery had his arme smitten away, in great danger to 

 have lost his life ; howbeit by the helpe of God he died 

 not. In like sort the same day was hurt Sir William ^^^ ^^'^'^• 

 Weston abovesayd, captaine of the posterne of England, ^^^^^^^f' 

 and had one of his fingers stricken away with an harque- ^;W/vi pos~ 

 bush : which knight behaved himselfe right woorthily at terne hurt. 

 all the assaults. Of the Turkes part, of great men, were 

 two principall captaines slaine under the Aga of the 

 Janissaries, and another captaine that was come out of 

 Surey to the campe certaine dayes before, with sixe 

 hundred Mamelukes, and two or three thousand Moores. 

 And of them that were hurt of great men the Beglarby 

 of Natolia had a stroke with an arrow as he was in the 

 trench of Provence. And many other were wounded, 

 whose names be not rehearsed here, because of shortnesse. 



Hov^ the great Turke for anger that he could [H. i- 85.] 

 not get the towne, v^ould have put his chiefe 

 captaine to death, and how they made 1 1 

 mines under the bulv^arke of England. 



DUring this assault, the great Turke was by his pavil- 

 lion in a place that he had caused to be made, and 

 saw all the businesse, and how his people were so sharpely 

 put backe, and the victory lost on his side, & was very 

 sore displeased, and halfe in despaire : and he sent for 

 Mustafa Basha with whom he was angry, and chid him 

 bitterly, saying that he had caused him to come thither, and 

 had made him to beleeve that he should take the towne 

 in fifteene dayes, or a moneth at the furthest ; and he had 

 beene there already three moneths with his army, and 

 yet they had done nothing. And after these wordes he 

 was purposed to put him to death in the campe : but the 

 other Bashas shewed him that he ought not to do justice 

 in the land of his enemies, for it would comfort them 

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