APPENDIX

cxlvii

and vs during the seage*. I beleve seins the tyme of theromans as far as I have red in ....was ther never no towne beshegied wt. so gret an armybothe by se and by lande as . . . beshegid with all;

for by the se be bad t . . . of v sailles not lakhing xvtbthousand seamen, and by lande af hundredth thousandfething men and fefte thousand laborers with spadesand pikes wer the occasione of the taking of the E-odes inthe space of four moniths, they brought a mowntaine oferth befor them to the walles of the towne which was ashie agen as the walles of the towne wer, the which ....

the distructione and dethe of many a man.

and child ; for at all such tymes as they would geve vs anybatalle they would put IIII or Y springarders upon thesaid mowntaine, that the people for a man could not go inthe ..... of that mountaine. Iwas one of those that the lord master ....Eeligione sent to the gret turk for p such tyme

as the pact was made betwene the Turks and him. Thegret turk ys of the age of . . yers; he ys vere wise dis-

cret and muc . . . bothe in his wordes and also in his

# "Whether this promise was ever kept or not, they do not nowappear in the British Museum.

f The only way to make this writer agree with greater autho-rities, and indeed with himself a few lines forward, is either tosuppose that a is a slip of the pen for two, or that he relates insome of the passages illegible that the other half of the armyslipt in later by degrees from Syria and those countries, as othersrelate. Turks, as well as Christians, have at least 200,000fighting men ; and some, several thousands more.