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. . being of his age. I was in his courte . . .

at such time as we were brought first to mak our rever-ence unto him, we fou .... a red pavilion standing

betwen too.lions marvelous ryche and sumptu

.setting in a chayr and no creatur wt. in the

pavelione, which chayr was of g . . . . work of fin goldhis gard standing near his pavilion to the number of

XXII.they be callid Sulaky, thes nomber . . .

continually about his parson, he ha.nombr of XL

thowsand of them, they wear on ther heddes a longwhite cape and on the tope of the cape a white ostrage

.whiche gevith a gret show.

Armye was divided in fowre partes, the captaines . . .

waz callid as folowith, the principall captaine is calledpero bashaw, second mustapha bashaw, the third hakmakbashaw, the fourth the ... . igalarby of anatolia.

they be the IIII governours under the gret turk; euryone of them had fifte thousand men under his Baner, andthey lay at IIII severall places of the towne, and eueryone of them made a breche in the wall of the towne;that in some places Vc men on horse back myght come inat onse ; and after that the wall of the towne was downethey gave vs battall often tymes apon even ground that wehad no manner of advantage apone them; yet thankid beGod and Saint John at euery batall they returned withouttheir purpose. Upon Seint Andrue ys evin last, was the lastbatall that was betwene the turkes and vs ; at that batallwas slain XI thousand turkes and of our part a hundredthand . . . . ur score, and after that day the turkes purposedto give vs no more batall, but to come into the towne by