THE LOSS OF FAMAGUSTA a.d. 



1571. 

 and they not being able to keepe mee in covert any- 

 longer for feare of the great penaltie, which was pro- 

 claimed agaynst such transgressors and concealers, I 

 ofired, and gave my selfe slave to one Sangiaccho del 

 Bir, promising him five hundred * Zechins for my ran- "^Zechini^be 

 some, with whom I remained in the Campe. The Friday ^^^^^«^ /j^^^-^ 

 folowing (being the Turkes sabboth day) this woorthy ^^i^^^ i^ y^_ 

 and pacient gentleman Bragadino was led still in the nice, every one 

 presence of that unfaithfull tirant Mustafa, to the of the which is 

 batteries made unto the Citie, whereas he being com- ^^ ^^'^/^^ "f^^ 

 pelled to cary two baskets of earth, the one upon his ^p^nceofour 

 backe, the other in his hand slave-like, to every sundry mony, l^some- 

 battrie, being enforced also to kisse the ground as oft as what better : 

 he passed by him, was afterward brought unto the sea ^ ^^^r' 

 side, where he being placed in a chaire to leane and stay Turkish 

 upon, was winched up in that chaire, and fastened unto Byraltom. 

 the maineyard of a galley, and hoisted up with a crane, 

 to shew him to all the Christian souldiours and slaves 

 (which were in the haven already shipped) hee being 

 afterward let downe, and brought to the market place, 

 the tormenters tooke of his clothes from him, and tacked 

 him unto the pillorie, whereas he was most cruelly flaied 

 quicke ; with so great constancie and faith on his part, 

 that he never lost or abated any jot of his stedfast 

 courage, being so farre from any fainting, that hee at His death 

 that present with most stout heart reproched them, and ^^■^^'^^^'^^^ ^^ 

 spake miuch shame of his most traiterous dealing in ^^J'^^^^^ ^J^- 

 breaking of his faithfull promise. At the last without 

 any kind of alteration of his constancie, he recommending f^ jpoistisas 

 his soule unto almightie God, gave up the ghost. When // zvere a Bri- 

 hee had thus ended his life (thanks be to God) his skin gandine, being 

 being taken and filled with strawe, was commaunded ^°^^^^^^ 

 foorthwith to be hanged upon the bowsprit of a *Foist, ^Jr^ ^ ^^n^^ 

 and to be caried alongst the coast of Syria by the sea side, much used of 

 that all the port townes might see, and understand who the Turkish 



he was. Z^lTlUhem 



This is now so much as I am able to declare to your p^y^^^j ^j. 



highnesse by that I sawe my selfe, and can remember Rovers. 



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