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partido, fell downe allmost ded and what tyme herccoveryd him sel in sort he seing them contenue in thesame, at last consented to the same. During the seagethe lord master hath hen found in every batall oft as theworst knight of the religione .... Knights therwar slain YII hundredth and three of the turlcesan hundredth and three thousand they gave vs XXIII

batalles, the XX.September was the generall

batalle from the beginning of the day to hie .... with-owte sassing; they gave us battalle in Y places ofthe towne, and ther war slane by their owne con-fessione at that batalle XXII thousand; the gret turkwas ther in parson and in the batall we had slain three

score.apon our walles or ever we wer

redy to ... them; ther wer slaine of our part

VI thousand and.during the siege tyme,

May the lord have yor lordship in Iris mercifullkepyng. Messena, the XVth day of May. By the handof yor feithfull seruant and

bedman

Nycholas Roberts.*

Num. CCY.

Ex Cotton, MS. — Otho, B. ix.

From the G. Master Fabricius cle Careito toHenry VIII.

That he detains his dearest Sir William Darrell, an

* Too many of the Cotton MSS. have been much scorched andburned in both margins, and sometimes in the middle of the pages,to the loss of many words; so in the extracts these breaches areillegible.