THE LOSS OF RHODES ad. 



1522. 

 businesse, and to make answere to the great lord (as 

 he had sent and commaunded) or els it should not be 

 long or he sawe his dolorous and wofull ende. And that 

 same day were taken two men of ours that bare earth 

 toward the bulwarke of England. Of whom the sayd 

 Acmek caused an officer to cut off their noses, fingers 

 and eares, and gave them a letter to beare to the lord 

 great master, wherein were great wordes and threatnings. 

 After the sayd Perruse was returned, messire Passin was 

 sent againe to the sayde Basha, for to know of him if 

 the great Turke would be content with any summe of 

 money for his costes and expenses, that he had made 

 for his armie. The which answered that such words or 

 offers of silver were not to bee sayd nor presented to 

 the great lord on paine of life, and that hee set more 

 by honour then by silver. And therefore hee bade him 

 returne and say to the great master that hee should make 

 answere to the great lord after his demaund, to yeeld 

 or not yeeld the towne. The sayd Passin made relation 

 of the wordes of the Basha to the great master : the 

 which for the great sorrow that hee had deferred alwayes, 

 saw himselfe in such pitious estate. Notwithstanding, 

 the sayd lord putting all to the wil of our lord, & con- 

 sidering that there was no remedie to do otherwise, nor 

 to resist any more his enemies : and being constrained 

 on all sides to make the appointment, with great heavi- 

 nesse, inestimable dolours and bewailings, at the last 

 gave his voyce to yeeld the towne (with the treatise or 

 offers to him presented) which was the 20. day of De- 

 cember, the yeere of our lord a thousand five hundreth 

 and two and twentie. 



An ansv^ere to such as will make question for 

 the deliverance of the citie of Rhodes. 



ANd if by any it were demaunded wherefore the sayde 

 lord great master hath yeelded the towne to the great 

 Turke, requesting it with treatie and covenaunts, which 

 was a signe that he feared and would no more fight, but 



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