THE LOSS OF FAMAGUSTA 



A.D. 

 I57I, 



the 



service of the artillery. The valiant captaine 

 cesco Bagoiie warded at the Keepe, and at the 



Fran- 

 great 

 Commander of the Arsenall. Captaine Pietro Conte 

 attended upon the Cortaine, at the Commander of the 

 Volti, and at the Keepe of Campo Santo. I for my 

 part attended upon the Commander of Campo Santo, 

 and upon the Commander of Andruzzi, and of the 

 Cortaine, unto the Turret of Santa Nappa. The Earle 

 Hercole Martiningo attended upon the Commander of 

 Santa Nappa, and to the whole Cortaine, unto the gate 

 of Limisso. Horatio Captaine of Veletri attended upon 

 the Brey and Cortaine toward the Bulwarke. Upon 

 the high Commander of Limisso, which was more 

 troubled then all the rest, attended the Captaine Roberto 

 Malvezzi. At the same time, when the battery began 

 (by the commission of the honourable Bragadino) victuals 

 were appointed, and given to all the souldiers, aswell 

 Grecians, as Italians, and Gunners : namely Wine, Pot- 

 tage, Cheese, and Bakon : all the which things were 

 brought to the walles as need did require in very good 

 order, so that no souldier there spent any miore in bread 

 then two souses a day. They were payed at the end 

 of every thirty dayes with the great travell of that right 

 worshipfull Venetian gentleman M. Giovanni Antonio 

 Querini, who besides this his ordinary charge was found 

 present in all weighty and dangerous affaires to the great 

 incouragement of our souldiours. And wee made a 

 counterbattery against our enemies for ten dayes space, 

 with so great rage, that we choked and destroyed fifteene 

 of their best pieces, also we killed and dispatched of 

 them about thirty thousand at that season, so that they 

 were disappointed at that time of their battery in that 

 place, and were greatly dismayed. But we foreseeing that 

 we had no great store of powder left, there was made a re- 

 straint, and such order taken, that thirty pieces should not 

 shoot off but thirty shot a piece every day, and that in the 

 presence of the Captaines, who were still present, because 

 the Souldiers and Gunners should not shoot off in vaine. 



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Two Venetian 

 souses or Soldi 

 amount but to 

 one peny Eng- 

 lish. 



