THE LOSS OF RHODES ad. 



1522. 



without cease against the mantellets, and brake many of 

 them, but they made other as it is sayd in the nights. 

 For they had all things that belonged to them, & needed. 

 And out of the posterne of England was shot a gunne 

 that brake downe one of the sayd mantellets, and hit 

 upon one of the pieces, and slew foure or five men, and 

 bare away both the legs of the master of the ordinance, 

 which died soone after : whereof the great Turke was 

 very ill content, and sayd that he had rather have lost 

 one of his basshas or captaines then the sayd master. 

 Also it is to knowen that there were three or foure man- 

 tellets addressed against the plain ground of Italy, and 

 by continuall beating of shot that they made, there was 

 also a breach, and by the earth and stones that were 

 fallen, they might come up to it. 



Of the politike repaires and defences that the 

 ingenious captaine Gabriel Martiningo, made 

 v^ithin the tow^ne against the breaches in the 

 w^alles. 



THe captaine Gabriel Martiningo, prompt, diligent, 

 and expert to give remedies to the needfull places, 

 foorthwith caused to make the traverses upon the wall 

 whereas the breach was, with good repaires, and gunnes 

 small and great which were set in the sayd traverses, the 

 which shot not onely at the breaches but to the trenches, 

 and made great murder of enemies aswell at the assaults 

 that they made as otherwhiles. And beside the traverses, 

 the sayd captaine planted small artillery, as harquebushes, 

 and handgunnes upon certaine houses within the towne, 

 that stood open against the breach, with good repaires: [il. i. 82,] 

 and from that place great slaughter of Turks was made 

 at the assaults. Also it is of trueth that beside the sayd 

 mantellets that shot against the wall of England and 

 Spaine with great bombards, were two mantellets in an 

 hie place toward the way to the gardin of Maupas, in 

 the which were certaine double gunnes, as basilisks with 



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