THE LOSS OF FAMAGUSTA ad. 



1571, 

 of Marchants, to be very wealthy : besides the city of 

 Baffo, Arnica, Saline, Limisso, Melipotamo, & Episcopia. 

 Timosthenes affirmeth, that this Hand is in compasse 429 

 miles : and Arthemidorus writeth the length of the same 

 to be 162 miles, measuring of it from the East to the 

 West, betwixt two promontories named Dinaretta and 

 Acamanta. This Hand is thought to be very rich, 

 abundant of Wine, Oile, Graine, Pitch, Rozin, Allum, 

 Salt, and of divers precious stones, pleasant, profitable, 

 and necessary for mans use, and much frequented of 

 Marchants of Syria, unto the which it lieth very nere. 

 It hath bene, as Plinie writeth, joyned sometime with 

 Syria, as Sicilia hath beene also with Italy. It was a 

 long time subject unto the Romans, after to the Per- 

 sians, and to the Soldan of ^gypt. The selfesame 

 Hand was sometime also English, being conquered by 

 king Richard the first, in his voyage to Hierusalem in 

 the yeere of our Lord 1192. Who (as Polydore writeth 

 in his fourteenth booke of our English historie) being 

 prohibited by the Cypriottes from arrivall there, invaded 

 and conquered the same soone after by force : and 

 having left behinde him sufficient garrisons to keepe the 

 same, departed from thence to Ptolemayda : who after- 

 ward exchanged the same with Guy of Lusignan, that 

 was the last christened king of Hierusalem, for the same 

 kingdome. For the which cause the kings of England 

 were long time after called kings of Hierusalem. And 

 last of all, the Venetians have enjoyed it of late a long 

 time, in this order following. In the yeere of our Lord 

 1470, John king of the sayd Hand, sonne to Janus of 

 Lusignan, had by Helen his wife, which was of the 

 Emperiall house of Paleologus, one daughter only called 

 Charlotta, and a bastard called James : the which James 

 was afterward consecrated Bishop of Nicosia. This 

 Charlotta was married first to the king of Portingall, 

 of whom he had no issue, so that he being dead, Lewes 

 Duke of Savoy (to whom shee was the second time 

 married) sonne to Lewes the second of that name (unto 



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