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towne on our part above 50. men of warre, whom, together 

 with 20. crosbowes, the captaine had left in garrison. All 

 these, out of certeine high places, beholding the enemies 

 vaste armie, and abhorring the beastly crueltie of Anti- 

 christ his complices, signified foorthwith unto their 

 governour, the hideous lamentations of his Christian 

 subjects, who suddenly being surprised in all the province 

 adjoyning, without any difference or respect of condition, 

 fortune, sexe, or age, were by manifolde cruelties, all of 

 them destroyed : with whose carkeises, the Tartarian 

 chieftains, and their brutish and savage followers, glutting 

 themselves, as with delicious cates, left nothing for vul- 

 tures but the bare bones. And a strange thing it is to 

 consider, that the greedie and ravenous vultures disdeined 

 to praye upon any of the reliques, which remained. Olde, 

 and deformed women they gave, as it were, for dayly 

 sustenance, unto their Canibals : the beautifull devoured 

 they not, but smothered them lamenting and scritching, 

 with forced and unnaturall ravishments. Like barbarous 

 miscreants, they quelled virgins unto death, and cutting 

 off their tender paps to present for deinties unto their 

 magistrates, they engorged themselves with their bodies. 



Howbeit, their spials in the meane time discrying from 

 the top of an high mountaine the Duke of Austria, the 

 King of Bohemia, the Patriarch of Aquileia, the Duke of 

 Carinthia, and (as some report) the Earle of Baden, with 

 a mightie power, and in battell aray, approching towards 

 them, that accursed crew immediatly vanished, and all 

 those Tartarian vagabonds retired themselves into the 

 distressed and vanquished land of Hungarie ; who as they 

 came suddenly, so they departed also on the sudden : 

 which their celeritie caused all men to stand in horrour 

 and astonishment of them. But of the sayd fugitives, the 

 prince of Dalmatia tooke eight : one of which number the 

 Duke of Austria knew to be an English man, who was 

 perpetually banished out of the Realme of England, in 

 regard of certaine notorious crimes by him committed. 

 This fellow, on the behalfe of the most tyrannicall king of 



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