A.D. 

 I57I. 



[II. i. 



* The gate of 

 the great 

 Turke^ Is as 

 much to say, 

 as Constant'in- 

 ople : the 

 which they 

 call in the 

 Turkish 

 language 

 Stanboli. 



Gli Fenturiei'i 

 da spada^ are 

 a kind of ven- 

 turing soul- 

 dierSj who 

 commonly are 

 wont to follow 

 the army in 

 hope of the 

 spoile. 



Aleppo, a fa- 

 mous citie 

 neere unto 

 Antiochia, 

 otherwise 

 called in 

 Grccke, y]kio- 

 TToAts, the city 

 of the Sunne. 



* Bey in ye 

 Turkish 

 language, 

 signifeth 

 knight with us. 



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whilest that I was in the Fortresse : that also which by 

 true relation of others I could understand, and sawe also 

 my selfe in the campe, whilest I was slave, I will likewise 

 briefly utter unto you. The enemies armie was in num- 

 ber two hundred thousand persons of all sortes and 

 qualities. Of souldiers which tooke pay there were 80. 

 thousand, besides the which number, there were 14. 

 thousand of Giannizzers taken out from all the holdes 

 of Syria, Caramania, Natolia, and part of them also which 

 came from the * gate of the great Turke. The venturers 

 with the sword were 60. thousand in number. The 

 reason, why there v/ere so many of this sort, was because 

 Mustafa had dispersed a rumour through the Turkes 

 dominion, that Famagusta was much more wealthy and 

 rich, then the citie of Nicosia was : so for that cause, and 

 by the commodious and easie passage from Syria over 

 into Cyprus, these venturers were easily induced to come 

 thither. In 75. dayes (all the which time the batterie 

 still continued) 140. thousand iron pellets were shot of, 

 numbred, and scene. The chiefe personages which were 

 in their armie neere unto Mustafa, were these following : 

 the Bassa of Aleppo, the Bassa of Natolia, Musafer Bassa 

 of Nicosia, the Bassa of Caramania, the Aga of the 

 Giannizzers, Giambelat * Bey, the Sangiaccho of Tripolis, 

 the * Begliarbei of Greece, the Bassa of Scivassi and 

 of Marasco, Ferca Framburaro, the * Sangiaccho of 

 Antipo, Soliman Bey, three Sangiacchos of Arabia, 

 Mustafa Bey generall of the Venturers, Fergat gover- 

 nour of Malathia, the Framburaro of Diverie, the 

 Sangiaccho of Arabia and other Sangiacchos of lesser 

 credite, with the number of fourescore thousand persons 

 besides, as by the muster made by his Commission might 

 well appeare. 



The Framburaro v/hich was at Rhodes, was appointed 

 and left governour at Famagusta, and the report was that 

 there should bee left in all the Island of Cyprus, twentie 

 thousand persons, with two thousand horses, many of the 

 which I saw, being very leane and evill appoynted for 



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