A.D. 



1522. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



traitor. 



unawares surprise the towne in such estate as it was at 

 that time. Many other advertisements and warnings hee 

 shewed the Turke, which shall bee declared hereafter. 

 But beside his advertisement, the sayd great Turke stirred 

 A Porttngale and provoked by a false traitour, a Portingale knight of 

 ours, that time Chanceller of the sayd holy Religion, a 

 man of great authoritie, dignitie, and understanding, 

 and one of the principall lordes of the counsell of the 

 same, named Sir Andrew de Merall, by little and little 

 was mooved and kindled to the sayd enterprise of 

 treason, whereof was no marvell, for it was a great hope 

 and comfort to have such a person for him, that knew 

 all the estate and rule of the religion and of the towne. 

 And for to declare the occasions of the cursed and un- 

 happy will of the said traitor that had bene occasion of 

 so great losse and damage, and shall be more at the length, 

 if the divine power set not to his hand. 



And here it is manifestly to bee understood of all 

 men, that after the death of the noble and right prudent 

 lord, Fabrice of Cacetto, great master of Rhodes, the sayd 

 Sir Andrew enflamed with ambition and covetousnesse to 

 bee great master, and seeing himselfe deceived of his 

 hope, by the election made the two and twentieth day of 

 January, of the right reverend and illustrate lord, Philip 

 de Villiers Lisleadam, before him : from that time hee 

 tooke so great envie and desperation, enmitie and evill 

 will, not onely against the sayde lord, but against all the 

 holy religion, that hee set all his studie and purpose, to 

 betray and sell his religion and the citie of Rhodes to the 

 cursed misbeleevers, forgetting the great honours and 

 goodnesse that hee hath had of the religion, and hoped to 

 receive, with many other particuler pleasures that the sayd 

 lord master had done to him. But the devill, unkind- 

 nesse, and wickednesse had so blinded the eyes of his 

 thought, that hee in no wise could refraine him, but at 

 every purpose that was spoken afore him, hee was short 

 and might not dissemble. And one day among other 

 hee sayde before many knights, that hee would that his 



Philip de 

 Villiers great 

 master. 



