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A07119	The true report of all the successe of Famagosta, of the antique writers called Tamassus, a citie in Cyprus In the which the whole order of all the skirmishes, batteries, mines, and assaultes geuen to the sayd fortresse, may plainly appeare. Moreouer the names of the captaines, and number of the people slaine, as well of the Christians as of the Turkes: likewise of them who were taken prisoners: from the beginning of the sayd seege vntill the end of the same. Englished out of Italian by William Malim. With certaine notes of his and expositions of all the Turkishe wordes herein necessary to be knowen, placed in the margent, with a short description also of his of the same iland.; Assedio, et presa di Famagosta. English	Martinengo, Nestore, Conte.; Malim, William, 1533-1594.	1572 (1572)	STC 17520; ESTC S112366	26,258	52

The true Report of all the successe of Famagosta of the antique writers called Tamassus a Citie in Cyprus In the which the whole order of all the skirmishes batteries mines and assaultes geuen to the sayd Fortresse may plainly appeare Moreouer the names of the Captaines and number of the people slaine as well of the Christians as of the Turkes likewise of them who were taken prisoners from the beginning of the sayd seege vntill the end of the fame ¶ Englished out of Italian by William Malim ¶ With certaine notes of his and expositions of all the Turkishe wordes herein necessary to be knowen placed in the margent with a short description also of his of the same Iland ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye AN. 1572. ¶ To the right honourable and his singular good Lorde and onely Patrone the Earle of Leicester Baron of Denbigh Knight of the honourable order of the Garter one of the Queenes Maiesties most honourable priuie Counsell c. William Malim wisheth long health with encrease of honour IT hath bene a naturall instinct right honourable and mine especiall good Lorde engraffed in noble personages hartes much approued and confirmed also by custome for them to séeke frō time to time by some meanes in their life by the which they after their death might deliuer ouer their name to their posteritie least otherwise with their body their fame also altogether might perchaunce be buried Vpon the which consideration we read many notable and famous thinges to haue bene erected in time past of noble personages hauing had wealth at will in such sort that not onely certain ruines of the same sumptuous workes builded so many hundred yeares past doe still remaine but also the most part of those princes the authors of thē do continually by them dwell in our memoryes As the Pyramides made at Memphis or neare the famous Riuer of Nilus by the great expences of the Kings of Egypt the Tower called Pharia made in the Iland of Pharos by King Ptolomee the walles of Babylon made or at the least réedified by Quéene Semiramis Dianas Church at Ephesus builded by all the noble persons of Asia Mausolus Toome or Sepulcher made by his wife Quéen of Caria Colossus Solis placed at Rhodes I remember not by what Princes charge but made by the handes of Cares Lindius scholler to Lysippus and the Image of Iupiter made of Yuerye by the handes of the skilfull workeman Phydias The which monumentes made of barbarous and heathen Princes to redéeme them selues from obliuion deserued both for the magnificence and perfecte workmanship of the same to be accompled in those dayes as the 7. wonders of the world Since the which time an easier readier and lighter way being also of more continuance then the former hath ben found out namely Letters which were first inuented by the Caldies and Egyptians as we read and augmented since by others to our great benefite and now last of all no long time past the same to haue bene committed to Printers Presses to the greatest perfection of the same men being first enforced to write their actes and monumentes in beastes skinnes dryed in barkes of trées or otherwise perchaunce as vnreadily By the which benefite of Letters now reduced into Print we sée how easie a thing it is and hath bene for noble persons to liue for euer by the helpe of learned men For the memorye of those two worthy and valiaunt Captaines Scipio and Hannibal had bene long before this present quite forgotten except Titus Liuius or some such learned Historiographer had written of them in time And Alexander Magnus him selfe that great conquerour had nothing bene spoken of had not Q. Curtius or some other like by his learned stile reuiued the remembraunce of him and called backe againe his doinges to his posteritie For the which cause we sée commonly in all ages learned mē to be much made of by noble personages as that rare paterne of learning Aristotle to haue bene greatly honoured of that former renowmed Monarche Alexander who affirmed openly that he was more bound to his Maister Aristotle then to King Philip his father because the one had well framed his minde the other onely his body Many other like examples I could alledge at this present if I knew not vnto whom I now wrote or in what For your honour being skilfull in histories and so familiarly acquainted with the matter it selfe that is in still intertaining learned men with all courtesie I should seeme to light a candle at noone tyde to put you in remembrance of the one or to exhort you to do the other dayly being accustomed to performe the same Crassus sayth in Tullies first booke De Oratore that a Lawyers house is the Oracle of the whole Citie But I can iustly witnesse that for these 5. yeares last past since my returne from my trauell beyond the seas that your Lordships lodging in the Court where I through your vndeserued goodnesse to my great comfort do dayly frequent hath bene a continuall receptacle or harbour for all learned men comming from both the eyes of this Realme Cambridge and Oxforde of the which Vniuersitie your Lordship is Chauncellor to their great satisfaction of minde and ready dispatch of their sutes Especially for Preachers and Ministers of true Religion of the which you haue bene from time to time not onely a great fauourer but an earnest furtherer and protector so that these two nurseries of learning in one of the which I haue before this spent part of my time that I may speake boldly what I thinke should wrong your honour greatly and much forget them selues if by all meanes possible they should not héerafter as at this present to their small powers many well learned gentlemē of them do labour and trauell in shewing of them selues thankfull to reuerence and honour your Lordship and honest their owne names whose studies certainly would sodainly decay and fall flat if they were not helde vp by such noble proppes and had not some sure anckerholdes in their distresse to leane vnto How ready dayly your trauell is and hath long bene besides to benefite all other persons in whom any sparke of vertue or honestie remaineth I néede not labour to expresse the world knowing already the same But whosoeuer they be that in all their life time haue an especiall care by all meanes to profite as many as they be able and hurt none do not onely a laudable acte but lead a perfecte and very godly life Wherupon Strabo affirmeth this most truely to be spoken of them Mortales tum demum Deos imitari cum benifici fuerint Great commendation vndoubtedly it bringeth to any noble personage that as the Moone that light and brightnes which she receaueth of the Sunne is wont presently to spread abroad vpō the face of the earth to the refreshing and comforting of all inferiour and naturall thinges bearing life so for him to bestow all that fauour and credite which

carrye two baskets of earth the one vppon hys backe the other in hys hand slaue like to euery sundry battery being enforced also to kisse the ground as oft as he passed by him was afterward brought vnto the Sea side where he being placed in à chaire to leane and stay vpon was winched vp in that chaire and fastened vnto the Maineyarde of à Galley and hoysted vp with à Crane to shew him to all the Christian soldiers and slaues which were in the hauen already shipped he being afterward let down and brought to the market place the tormentors tooke of hys clothes from hym and tacked hym vnto the Pillary whereas he was most cruelly fleyed quicke with so great constancie and faith on his part that he neuer lost or abated any iotte of hys stedfast courage being so farre from any fainting that he at that present with most stoute hart reproched them and spake much shame of hys most trayterous dealing in breaking of hys faythfull promise At the last without any kinde of alteration of hys constancye he recommending hys soule vnto almighty God gaue vp the goste When he had thus ended hys life thankes be to God hys skinne being taken and filled with straw was commaunded forthwith to be hanged vpon the Bowsprit of a Foyste and to be caryed alongst the coast of Syria by the sea side that all the port townes might see and vnderstand who he was Thys is now so much as I am able to declare to your highnes by that I sawe my selfe and can remember whilest that I was in the Fortresse that also which by true relation of others I could vnderstand and saw also my selfe in the Campe whilest I was slaue I will likewise breefly vtter vnto you The enemies armies was in nūber 200. thousand persons of all sortes and qualities Of soldiers which toke paye 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 frō the Gate of the great Turke The venturers with the sword were 60. thousand in number The reason why there were so many of this sort was because Mustafà had dispersed à rumour through the Turkes dominion that Famagosta was much more wealthy and riche then the Citie of Nicosia was so for that cause and by the commodious and easie passage from Syria ouer into Cyprus these venturers were easily induced to come thether In 75. dayes all the which time the battery still continued 140. thousand yron pellets were shot of numbred and seene The cheefe personages which were in their armye neare vnto Mustafà were these following the Bassà of Aleppo the Bassà of Natolia Musafer Bassà of Nicosia the Bassà of Caramania the Agà of the Giannizzers Giambelat Bey the Sangiaccho of Tripolis the Begliarbei of Greece the Bassà of Sciuassi of Marasco Ferca Framburaro the Sangaccho of Antipo Soliman Bey three Sangacchos of Arabia Mustafà Bey Generall of the Venturers Fergat gouernour of Malathia the Framburaro of Diuerie the Sangaccho of Arabia and other Sangacchos of lesser credite with the number of 80. thousand persons besides as by the muster made by his commission might well appeare The Framburaro which was at Rhodes was appoynted and left gouernour at Famagosta and the report was that there should be left in all the Iland of Cyprus 20. thousand persons with 2000. horse many of the which I saw being very leane and euill appoynted for seruice It seemeth also à thing not impertinent to the matter to signifie to you how I by the especiall grace of God was deliuered out of their cruell handes I hauing payed within 42. dayes all the which time I was slaue 500. Zechins for my raunsome to hym whose prisoner I was by the meanes of the Consul for the French Marchantes à ligger then at Tripolis who à little before came from Tripolis in Syria vnto Cyprus into the Turkes campe Yet for all that I had payed thys summe of money to him he would not so set me at libertie but feeding me vp still with faire words and promising me that he would first bring me vnto his gouernment which abutted vpon à peece of the famous riuer of Euphrates and afterward dimisse me The which malice and falsehoode of hys I perceauing determined with my selfe to geue hym the slippe and to flye so I wayting my time and repayring often to the Citie at length met with à small Fisher bote of the which à poore Grecian was honor maister with whom in one night with two onely Ores and à small saile made of two shirtes passed ouer frō Cyprus vnto Tripolis being in very great daunger of drowning whereas I remained in couert in the house of certaine Christians vntill the 25. of September at what time I departed from thence in à little French ship called Santo Vittor which came into these partes and as we rode we touched at à part of Cyprus westward called Capo delle Gatte where as I came à land and talking with certaine of the inhabitaunce of the villages who were then by chaunce à hauking demaunded of them how they were intreated of the Turkes and after what sort the Iland was tylled to the which they aunswered that they could not possibly be in worse pickle then they were at that present not enioying that quietly which was their owne being made villans flaues and almost alwayes carying away the Bastonados so that now they sayd they knew by triall too perfectly the plesaunt and peaceable gouernment of the Christians wishing and praying God that they might shortly returne And concerning the tyllage of the Iland they made aunswere moreouer that no part of it was plowed or laboured sauing onely that mountaine which was towardes the West and that because they were little troubled with the crueltie of the Turkes but as for the plaine and East part of the Iland there was small seede sowen therein but became in à maner desert there being left but fewe inhabitauntes and lesse store of cattell there Afterward we departing from thence arriued in Candia I for my part being clothed in Sackcloth whereas soone after by the great courtesie of the right honourable Sig. Latino Orsino I was new apparelled accordingly frendly welcomed and my necessitie relieued From whence I shortly after sailing in à Cypriottes ship thākes be to almightie God arriued in this Citie in health and am safely come home now at the honourable feete of your highnesse ❧ The Captaines of the Christians dead in Famagosta THe Lord Estor Baglione Thr Lord Aluigi Martinengo The Lord Federico Baglione The Knight of Asta Vicegouernour The Captaine Dauid Noce Maister of the Campe. The Capt. Meani of Perugia Sargent Maior The Earle Sigismond of Casoldo The Earle Francesco of Lobi of Cremona The Captaine Francesco Troncauilla The Capt.