A briefe relation of the siege and taking of the 

 Citie of Rhodes, by Sultan Soliman the 

 great Turke, translated out of French into 

 English at the motion of the Reverend 

 Lord Thomas Dockwray, great Prior of the 

 order of Jerusalem in England, in the yeere, 



1524- 



Tiling faithfully to write and reduce in 

 veritie Historiall, the great siege, cruel 

 oppugnation, and piteous taking of the 

 noble and renowmed citie of Rhodes, the 

 key of Christendome, the hope of many 

 poore Christian men, withholden in Tur- 

 kic to save and keepe them in their faith : 

 the rest and yeerely solace of noble pilgrimes of the 

 holy sepulchre of Jesu Christ and other holy places : the 

 refuge and refreshing of all Christian people : having 

 course of marchandise in the parties of Levant, I promise 

 to all estates that shall see this present booke, that I 

 have left nothing for feare of any person, nor preferred 

 it for favour. And first I shall shewe the occasions 

 that mooved this cruell bloodshedder, enemie of our 

 holy Christian faith, Sultan Soliman, now being great 

 Turke, to come with a great hoste by sea and by 

 lande, to besiege and assayle the space of sixe moneths, 

 night and day, the noble and mightie citie of Rhodes, 

 The yere of the incarnation of our Lord Jesu Christ, 

 1522. 



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