The begynnynge and foundacyon of the holy hospytall, [and] of the ordre of the knyghtes hospytallers of saynt Johan baptyst of Jerusalem
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- The begynnynge and foundacyon of the holy hospytall, [and] of the ordre of the knyghtes hospytallers of saynt Johan baptyst of Jerusalem
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- [Imprynted at Lo[n]don :: In the Fletestrete at ye sygne of the Rose garlonde by Robert Coplande.,
- The yere of our lorde god M.v.C.xxiiii. the xxiii. day of Iuly] [1524]
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- Knights of Malta -- Early works to 1800.
- Rhodes (Greece : Island) -- Siege, 1522 -- Early works to 1800.
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"The begynnynge and foundacyon of the holy hospytall, [and] of the ordre of the knyghtes hospytallers of saynt Johan baptyst of Jerusalem." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04910.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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ANd yf by ony it were obiect wherfore the sayd lorde grete mayster hathe yelded ye towne to the grete Turke / demaū¦dynge it wt treaty & couenaūtes / whiche was a sygne that he feared & wolde no more fyght / but go his way. To this I answere. Notwithstandynge y• the grete Turke was aduertysed by some treatours / & by other y• fledde to ye campe / that y• powders almoost fayled / & that there was but fewe mē of warre wtin the towne / yet he beleued not nor gaue credence of all yt was reported to hym / but thought verely yt we had ynough for a grete whyle. And consydered y• he must tary tyll they were wasted & spent / wherto be∣houed tyme. And seynge all his estate entred in straunge places / and in landes of his enmyes / & had ben there all redy .vi. monethes (& not without grete daunger of his owne persone). Thynkynge on ye other syde / yt takynge ye towne by assaute he shulde lose many of his folke. And yet whan he had ouercome & wonne the towne / they shulde fall eche vpon other in departynge of the buty or pyllage / doubtynge fy∣nably the hasarde of warre. For these reasones and other yt may be al∣leged / the grete Turke had moche leuer to haue ye towne by composy¦tion & treaty than otherwyse. And it suffysed hym to dryue his olde enmyes out of ye countrees of leuant / & set y• subiectes of his coūtrees in rest and surety. And we of the towne yt knewe our weykenesse / and that we myght no more / it semed better to saue somoche small people than we and they to fall in the woodnes of our enmyes / for otherwyse coude we not haue done / but tempte god and deyed as in dyspayre.