AMBASSAGE FROM DON FERDINAND 



A.D. 



1527. 



An ambassage from Don Ferdinando, brother to 

 the emperor Charles the 5. unto king Henry 

 the 8. in the yere 1527. desiring his aide 

 against Solyman the great Turke. HoHn- 

 shed. pag. 894. 



N the 14. day of March, 1527. were con- 

 veied from London to Greenwich by the 

 earle of Rutland and others, the lord 

 Gabriel de Salamanca, earle of Ottonburge, 

 John Burgrave of Sylverberge, and John 

 Faber a famous clerke, after bishop of 

 Vien, as ambassadours from Don Ferdi- 



nando, brother to Charles the emperor, newly elect king 

 of Hungarie and Beame, after the death of his brother 

 in law king Lewes, which was slaine by Solyman the 

 Turke the last Sommer. This company was welcommed 

 of the high officers, and after brought into the kings 

 presence, all the nobilitie being present; and there after 

 great reverence made, M. Faber made a notable oration, 

 taking his ground out of the Gospell, Exiit seminator 

 seminare semen suum : and of that hee declared how 

 Christ and his disciples went foorth to sowe, and how 

 their seed was good that fel into the good ground, and 

 brought foorth good fruite, which was the Christian faith. 

 And then he declared how contrary to that sowing, 

 Mahomet had sowen seed, which brought foorth evill 

 fruit. He also shewed from the beginning, how the 

 Turkes have increased in power, what realmes they had 

 conquered, what people they had subdued even to that 

 day. He declared further what actes the great Turke 

 then living had done ; and in especiall, he noted the 

 getting of Belgrade and of the Rhodes, and the slaying 

 of the king of Hungarie, to the great rebuke (as he [II. i. 96.] 

 sayd) of all the kings christened. Hee set foorth also 

 what power the Turke had, what diversities of companies, 

 what capitaines he had, so that he thought, that without 



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