AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1522. 



if there were any that would passe over into Turkic, that 

 they should haste them to come. The Turkes weening 

 that they had beene of Turkie, there entred a 12. persons, 

 the which were carried to Rhodes, by whom we knew 

 what they did in the campe. 



The first day of August the Captaine Gabriel Martin- 

 ingo was made knight of the order of the religion by the 

 lord great Master, and was made the first auncient of the 

 Italian nation, of the first baliage or priorie that should 

 be vacant. And in the meane season the religion should 

 give him twelve hundred ducates for pension every yeere, 

 and the same day he was received to the Councell in the 

 roome of a baylife. 



The fift day of the sayd moneth our master gunner 

 was slaine with a gunne, which was great losse for us 

 at that time. 



The 15. day of the sayd moneth was knowen and 

 taken for a traitor, Messire John Baptista, the physicion 

 aforesayd, which confessed his evill and divelish doings, 

 and had his head striken of. 



Of the marveilous mounts that the Turks made 

 afore the towne, and how^ the capitaines were 

 ordered in the trenches. 



AFter the comming of the great Turke, the enemies 

 began to shoote with ordinance of another sort then 

 they did before, and specially with harquebushes and 

 handguns, and also to make their trenches and approches. 

 And also they did more diligence then afore, to bring ye 

 earth nigh the towne with spades and pickaxes. And it is 

 to weet, that they mooved the earth from halfe a mile off, 

 and there were shot out of the towne innumerable strokes 

 with ordinance against the sayd earth, and innumerable 

 quantitie of people hid behind the sayd earth, were slaine. 

 Neverthelesse they never left working till they had 

 brought it to the brimmes of the ditches : and when it 

 was there, they raised it higher and higher in strengthning 

 it behind. And in conclusion the sayd earth was higher 



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