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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

partes of the Citie as neare as they might After we had defended and repulsed this assault and perceaued thinges brought to à narrower straite then they were wont to be at we hauing left in all the whole Citie but 7. barrels of pouder the Gouernours of the Citie fully determined to yelde vp them selues and the Citie with honourable conditions Wherfore the first of August in the after noone they tooke à truce one being come for that purpose from Mustafà the Generall with whom they concluded the next morning following to geue 2. hostages à peece vntill such time as both armies were agreed For our hostages by the appointment of the right honourable Bragadino were sent forth the Earle Hercole Martinengo and Sig. Matteo Colsi à Citizen of Famagosta and frō our enemies came into the Citie the Liefetenant of Mustafà and the Agà of the Giannizzers the which were met euen vnto the gate of the Citie of Sig. Baglione with 200. Harquebusers ours also were met in like maner with great pompe with horsemen Harquebusers with the sonne also of Mustafà in person who made very much of them The Lord Baglione imparld with these hostages which were then come for that purpose of the articles of peace requiring by them of their Generall their liues armour and goods 5. peeces of Ordinance 3. of the best horses and safe passage from thence vnto Candia accompanied with their Gallies and last of all that the Grecians inhabiting the Iland might dwell there still quietly and enioye peaceably their owne goods and possessions liuing still Christians hereafter as they had done before All the which requestes and articles were agreed vpon graunted and subscribed vnto by the hand of Mustafà Forthwith were sent Gallies and other vessels into the hauen so that our soldiers immediately beganne to imbarke them selues of the which the greater part were already gone aboorde the nobilitie and our cheefe Captaines also being likewise very desirous to depart The 15. of August in the morning the worthy Bragadino sent me with à letter vnto Mustafà by the which he signified that the same night he would come vnto him to deliuer vp the keyes of the Citie and that he would leaue in the holde the honourable gentleman Tiepolo praying him therfore that whilest he should haue iust cause thus to be abroad that there might be no harme done at home and in the Citie The Turkes from our truce taking vntill that time practised with vs all familiarly without any suspition of sinister or double dealing they hauing shewed vs much courtesie both in worde and deede Mustafà him selfe by worde of mouth presently aunswered me to thys letter in this sort that I should returne make relation to this noble man Bragadino who had sent me that he should come ouer to him at his owne pleasure for he was very desirous both to see and know him for hys great worthines and prowes that he had tryed to be in hym and in the other of his Captaines and soldiers of whose manhoode and courage he would honourably report where soeuer he came as occasion should serue therunto and to cōclude that he should nothing doubt of any thing because in no maner of condition he would suffer any violence to be done to those which remained behinde within the Citie So I speedely returning made true report of the same and towardes night about 4. of the clocke the right honourable Bragadino accompanied with the L. Baglione with Sig. Aluigi Martinengo with the right worshipfull Sig. Gio. Antonio Querini with the right worshipfull Sig. Andrea Bragadino with the Knight of Haste with the Captaine Carlo Ragonasco with Captaine Francesco Straco with Captaine Hector of Brescia with Captaine Girolomo di Sacile and with other gentlemen and 50. soldiers the Gouernours and noble men with their swordes and the soldiers with their Harquebusers came forth of their holde and went vnto the Pauilion of Mustafà of whom all they at the beginning were courteously receaued and caused to sit down by him he reasoning and discoursing with them of diuers thinges à certaine time and drawing them from one matter to an other at the last vpon à sodaine picked à quarell vnto thē especially burthening that noble Bragadino with an vntruth laying to his charge that he had caused certaine of his slaues in the time that the truce continued betwixt them to be put to death The which thing was most false So that he being angry therewith sodainly stept forth and commaunded them to be bound Thus they being vnarmed not suffered at that time to enter into hys Pauilion with their former weapons and bound were lead one by one into the market place before hys Pauilion being presently cutte and hewen in sunder in hys presence and last of all from that worthy and noble Bragadino who being bound as the rest and being cōmaunded twise or thrise to stretch forth his necke as though he should haue bene beheaded the which most boldly he did without any sparke of feare hys eares were cut of and causing him to be stretched out most vilely vpon the ground Mustafà talking with hym and blaspheming the holy name of our Sauiour demaunding hym where is now thy Christ that he helpeth thee not To all the which no aunswere at all was geuen of that honourable gentleman The Earle Hercole Martinengo which was sent for one of the hostages who was also bound was hidden by one of Mustafàs Eunukes vntill such time as hys fury was past afterward hys life being graunted hym he was made the Eunukes slaue Three Grecians which were vnder his Pauilion were left vntouched All the soldiers which were found in the campe and all sortes of Christians to the nūber of 300. were sodainly slaine they nothing mistrusting any such treason or tyranny The Christian soldiers which were imbarcked à little before were lincked and fettered with yron chaines made slaues all thinges being taken from them and stripped into their shirtes The second day after thys murther was committed which was the 17. of August Mustafà entred the first time into the Citie and caused the valiant and wise gouernor Tiepolo to be hanged who remayned behinde wayting the returne of Sig. Bragadino I being in the citie at that present whē other of my coūtreymē were thus miserably slaine made slaues hid my selfe in certaine of the Grecians houses the space of 5. daies and they not being able to keepe me in couert any longer for feare of the great penaltie which was proclamed against such transgressours and concealers I offered and gaue my selfe slaue to one Sangaccho del Bi r promising hym 500. Zechins for my raūsome with whom I remained in the campe The Friday following being the Turkes sabboth day thys worthy and pacient gentleman Bragadino was led still in the presence of that vnfaythfull tyrant Mustafà to the batteries made vnto the Citie whereas he being compelled to