AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1522. 



wall because the brimmes of the ditch without were almost 

 as hie as the wall that they beat. But or they bare the 

 artillery away, they beat the steeple of S. Johns church so, 

 that the most part was broken and cast downe. The fore- 

 sayd mantellets were appointed to beat S. Nicholas tower, 

 and by the space of ten or twelve dayes they shot sore 

 against it : but they had so sharpe and vigorous answere, 

 that there was not one mantellet that abode whole an 

 houre. The captaine of the sayd tower and his folke 

 did such diligence and businesse in shooting off their 

 pieces, that the enemies durst set up no more mantellets 

 by day, nor shoot no more but onely by night, while the 

 Moone did shine, which is a thing worthy of memory, 

 of marvaile, and of praise. At the last when they had 

 beaten against the sayd tower a certaine time, seeing that 

 it furthered nothing, they tooke their ordinance from 

 thence, and bare it where they thought best. 



During the shot in the sayd place, the other captaines 

 were not idle nor in a sleepe, but without cease night 

 and day they beat the wall of England and Spaine, and 

 set foureteene mantellets against it, shooting great bom- 

 bards, whereof some of the stones were five or sixe 

 spannes about, and some other of nine or ten : and within 

 a moneth and lesse they cast downe the wall almost even 

 smooth with the Barbican. And when the sayd wall 

 was so beaten, they set to beat the bulwarke of Spaine 

 for to raise the defences : and in their trenches they set 

 three great bombards, which shot stones of eleven spannes 

 in compasse, and with the sayd pieces they beat the 

 sayd bulwarke and wall in such wise, that they made 

 great bracks, and the stones and earth that fell, served 

 the enemies for ladders, so that they might come upon 

 the plaine ground. In like sort they raised the defences 

 from the height of the bulwarke at the posterne of 

 Provence, and set three great pieces on the brimme of 

 the ditch, which shot stones of eleven spannes against the 

 wall, and within a while they made a breach as at the 

 posterne of Spaine. The artillery of the towne did shoot 



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