THE LOSS OF RHODES ad. 



1522. 



repaires, he was slaine with small gunnes of the trenches, 



and holes made in the walks of our ditches. And there Tzvo thousand 



was slaine of our enemies that day at the assault 2000 ^^^^^ f^^^r u 



of meane men, and three persons of estate, which lay \ulwavke^^^ 



dead along in the ditch, with faire and rich harnesse. 



And it was reported to us from the campe, they were 



three saniacbeis, that is to say, great seneshalles or 



stuards. And of Christian men of our part abode about 



thirty persons. And this was the second victory given 



to us by the grace divine. 



How Sir John Bourgh Turcoplier of England 

 was slaine at an assault of the English bul- 

 warke. 



THe 17 day of the same moneth, about midday, the 

 enemy came againe to give another assault to the 

 sayd bulwarke, at the same place aforesayd, without 

 setting of fire in mines, and brought five banners with 

 them, nigh to the repaires. Then was there strong 

 fighting on both parts, and there were gotten two of 

 their banners, of the which sir Christopher Valdenare, 

 that time Castelaine of Rhodes, gate one : the other was 

 in the hands of sir John Bourgh Turcoplier of England, 

 chiefs captaine of the succours of the sayd posterne of 

 England, a valiant man & hardy : and in holding of it 

 he was slaine with the stroke of a handgunne, which 

 was great damage. The sayd banner was recovered by 

 one of our men. And after long fighting on both sides, 

 the enemies seeing that they got nothing but stripes, 

 returned into their trenches. At the sayd fray the lord 

 prior of S. Giles pre John was hurt thorow the necke 

 with a handgun, and was in great danger of death, but 

 he escaped and was made whole. The same day, and 

 the same houre of the sayd assault, the enemies mounted 

 to the breach in the wall of Spaine, and came to the 

 repaires to the handes of our men, and fought a great 

 while : but the great quantity of artillery that was shot 

 so busily and so sharply from our traverses on ech side, 



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