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1522. 



holow stones and wilde fire in them, which shot against 

 the wall into the towne at all aventures for to make 

 murder of people : howbeit, thanked be God, they did 

 no great harme but to the houses. 



After these great & terrible beatings, and that the 

 enemies had way to mount upon the towne walles, and 

 come to hand with us by traversing of their trenches to 

 the fallen earth within the breach more surely, and with- 

 out hurt of our gunshot, shooting thorow holes that 

 they made in the walles of the ditch without, they cast 

 up much stone and earth, because it should cover them 

 from the shot of the bulwarke of Auvergne. And also 

 they shot fervently against the bulwarke of Spaine, for 

 to raise the defences, of the which at the last they raised 

 the most part, reserving only a few gunners below in 

 the mine of the sayd bulwarke, which litle or nothing 

 damaged them. And this is touching the gunshot, 

 whereof I say not the third part, because it is a thing 

 incredible to them that have not scene it. For some 

 dayes they shot with those great bombards that were 

 on the brimme of the ditch, and from the mantellets 

 bent against the wall of England and Spaine 20 or 30 

 times and more. And I beleeve verily that since the 

 creation of the world such artillery, and so great quantity 

 was never bent and layed before any towne as hath bene 

 against Rhodes at this siege. Wherfore it is no marvell 

 if the walles be and have bene beaten downe, and if there 

 be breaches and clifts in many places. 



Of the mines that the Turks made : and how 

 they overthrew part of the bulwarke of Eng- 

 land. 



Nd because as it is sayd before, that the greatest 

 hope that the enemies had to get the towne of 

 Rhodes, was by mining, therefore now after that I have 

 spoken of the gunshot and beatings, I shall shew of the 

 mines that the Turks made, the which were in so 

 great quantity, and in so many places, that I beleeve the 



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