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willing to withdraw themselves : for at the retreat, and 

 also at their comming the sayd ordinance of the bul- 

 warke did them great damage, albeit that they had made 

 some repaire of earth. Of our men died that day 25 

 or thereabout, aswell knights as other. And the same 

 day in the morning departed out of this world Gabriel 

 de Pomerolles lieutenant to the lord master, which on 

 a certaine day before fell from the wall as he went to 

 see the trenches in the ditches, and hurt his breast, and 

 for fault of good attendance he fell into a fever, whereof 

 he died. 



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How the Turks assailed the bulwarke of England, 

 and hovv^ they were driven away. 



^He ninth day of the sayd moneth, at seven in the 

 morning the enemies put fire in two mines ; one 

 at the posterne of Provence, which had none effect : the 

 other was at the bulwarke of England, which felled 

 another piece nigh to that that was cast downe 

 [II. i. 83.] afore. And the sayd mine was as fierce as the other, 

 or more, for it seemed that all the bulwarke went downe, 

 and almost all they that were in it ranne away. And 

 when the standerd of the religion came into the sayd 

 bulwarke, the enemies were at the breach ready to have 

 entred : but when they saw the sayd standerd, as people 

 lost and overcome, they went downe againe. Then the 

 artillery of the bulwarke of Quosquino, and of other 

 places, found them well enough, and slew many of them. 

 Howbeit, their captaines made them to returne with great 

 strokes of swordes and other weapons, and to remount 

 upon the earth fallen from the sayd bulwarke, and pight 

 seven banners nigh to our repaire. Then our men 

 fought with morispikes and fixed speares against them 

 the space of three whole houres, till at the last they 

 being well beaten with great ordinance and small on 

 every side, withdrew themselves. And of their banners 

 our men gate one, for it was not possible to get any 

 more : for assoone as any of our men went up on our 



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