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Appendix VIII. and a certain son-in-law of the sultan’s died 1 Ui wounds. Thu struggle being ended, they first burnt all their stores, and retired to thir camp, a little distance from the city, where, embarking their artillery and heavy baggage, and consuming a few days in transporting some of their army into Lycia, they left the Rhodian shore, and retired to Phiscus, an ancient city on the mainland: thus they retired beaten, with ignominy. May the omnipotent God happily preserve your Imperial Majesty to our prayers! Given at Rhodes, on the 13th day of September, in the year of the Incarnation of our Redeemer MCCCCLXXX. Your Imperial Majesty’s humble servant, - PETER D’At’BUSSoN, Master of the Hospital of Jerusalem. APPENDIX VIII. Letter of Sir Nicholas Roberts to the earl of Surrey, descriptive of the second siege of Rhodes. (Ex Cotton MS’S. Copied from Tuafe’s “Knights of St. John.” l’his letter is much injured, and rendered illegible ta many parts.) Ryght honerable and my singlcr good Lord . . . . thankynge your Lordshipe . . . . with your letters of recommen . . . . to the Lord Master, the which letters I deliverede . . . . I deliverede to the Lord Master thos leters of recommeudationes that the kings grace. (‘ardinal, and my Lords grace, yr. father wrot to him . . . . I deliueryd unto Sir Thomas Sheffield a letter that my . . . . your father sent hym, and he gave me answer . . . . the time shold come he wold speake to . . . . for me, and to do the best he coulde for me it not been for hym, my lord master was determined to geven me part of the commandrey of grace . . . . commandrey, called Dymnore, bysydes Icceiste . . . . by the deth of the turkopolier, callyd Sir . . . whosne was slain at the seage of the Ito lord master bath given the said commandre to Sir . As touching the distructione and taking of the Rodes, I avised your lordshipe by my ires, datayd in february last past, Wh my next Ires, I shall send your lordship the copy of all suche things that hath ben betwen the great Turk and us during the seage I believe seins the tyme of the romans as far as I have red in . . . . was ther never no towne beshegied Wt so gret an army, both by se and by lande, as beshegied with all; for by these he had t . . . . of