Sultan Soliman the great Turke, translated out of French into English
at the motion of the Reuerend Lord Thomas Dockwray, great Prior of the
order of Ierusalem in England, in the yeere 1524
_Sub-section_ 1 The occasions why the great Turke came to besiege
the Citie of Rhodes
2 How the great Turke caused the passages to be kept, that none
should beare tidings of his hoste to Rhodes
3 How the lord great master consulted with the lordes for prouision
of the towne
4 Of the prouision for vitailes and ordinance of warre
5 How a Brigantine was sent to Candie for wine, and of diuers ships
that came to helpe the towne
6 How the corne was shorne downe halfe ripe and brought into the
towne for feare of the Turkes hoste
7 How the great master caused generall musters to be made, and sent a
vessell to the Turkes nauie, of whom he receiued a letter
8 The copie of the letter that the great Turke sent to the lord great
master, and to the people of the Rhodes
9 How the Turkes came to land in the Isle of Lango, and were driuen
to their ships againe by the Prior of S. Giles
10 How part of the nauie and armie of the great Turke came before the
citie of Rhodes
11 The number and names of the vessels that came to besiege Rhodes
12 How the lord great Master made his petition before the image of S.
Iohn and offered him the Keyes of the towne
13 How the women slaues would haue set fire to the towne
14 How the Turkes layd their artillerie about the towne, and of the
maner and quantitie of their pieces and gunshot
15 How the captaine Gabriel Martiningo came to the succor of Rhodes,
and all the slaues were in danger to be slaine
16 How the great Turke arriued in person before Rhodes
17 Of the marueilous mounts that the Turks made afore the towne, and
how the Captaines were ordered in the trenches
18 Of the politike repaires and defences that the ingenious Captaine
Gabriel Martiningo made within the towne against the breaches in
the walles
19 Of the mines that the Turks made: and how they ouerthrew part of
the bulwarke of England
20 How the Turks assailed the bulwarke of England, and how they were
driven away
21 How Sir Iohn Brough Turcoplier of England was slaine at an assault
of the English bulwarke
22 Of the terrible mine of the posterne of Auuergne
23 How the bulwarke of Spaine was lost and woone again
24 How the great Turke for anger that he could not get the towne,
would have put his chiefe captaine to death, and how they made 11
mines vnder the bulwarke of England
25 How the Turks were minded to haue gone their way, and of the
traitours within the towne, and of many great assaults
26 How the enemies assailed the posternes of Prouence and Italy, and
how they were driven away
27 How the treason of Sir Andrew de Merall was knowen, and of the
maruellous assaults that the Turks made
28 How the Turks got the plaine ground of Spaine
29 How a Geneuois came to the gate of the towne for to speake for a
treaty and deliuerance of the same
30 How the great Turke sent two of his men to the towne, to haue it by
intreating. And how the lord great master sent two knights to him,
to know his assurance
31 How the Ambassadours of Rhodes spake with the great Turke, and what
answere they had
32 How one of the Ambassadours made answere of his message, and how
the Commons would not agree to yeeld the towne
33 How the lord great master sent two ambassadors for the Commons to
the great Turke
34 How the Turks began the assault, and how the Commons agreed to
yeeld the towne
35 An answere to such as will make question for the deliuererance of
the citie of Rhodes
36 How the citie of Rhodes was yeelded to the great Turke, and of the
euill behauiour of certaine Turkes
37 Lenuoy of the Translator
XXXVI. An Ambassage from Don Ferdinando, brother to the Emperor Charles V.
vnto King Henry the VIII., in the yeere 1527, desiring his aide against
Solyman the great Turke
XXXVII. The antiquitie of the trade with English ships into the Leuant
XXXVIII. A letter of Henry the VIII. to John, King of Portugall
XXXIX. A voyage made with the shippes called the Holy Crosse and the Mathew
Gonson, to the isles of Candia and Chio, about the yeere 1534
XL. Another voyage to the isles of Candia and Chio, made by the shippe the
Mathew Gonson about the yeere 1535
XLI. The Epitaph of the valiant Esquire M. Peter Read in the South ile of
Saint Peters Church in Norwich
XLII. A discourse of the trade of Chio, in the yeere 1569, made by Master
Campion
XLIII. The first voyage of Robert Baker to Guinie with the Minion and
Primrose, set out in October 1562
XLIV. The second voyage to Guinie set out in the moneth of November 1563
XLV. The voyage of M. Roger Badenham with the great barke Aucher to Candia
and Chio, in the yeere 1550
XLVI. Another discourse of the trade to Chio in the yeere 1569 made by
Caspar Campion
XLVII. The true report of the siege and taking of Famagusta, a citie in
Cyprus 1571, Englished out of Italian by William Malim
XLVIII. A briefe description of the iland of Cyprus
_Sub-section_ 1 In Turchas precatio
XLIX. The true report of all the successe of Famagusta, made by the Earle
Nestor Martiningo, vnto the renowmed prince the Duke of Venice
_Sub-section_ 1 The first assault
2 The second assault
3 The third assault
4 The fourth assault
5 The fift assault
6 The sixt and last assault
7 The captaines of the Christians slaine in Famagusta
8 The names of Christians made slaues
9 The Fortifiers
10 Turkish Captains at Famagusta
L. The renuing and increasing of an ancient and commodious trade in the
Levant
LI. The letters sent from Murad Can to Elizabeth
LII. The answer of her Maiestie to the aforesaid letters
LIII. The Charter of the priuileges granted to the English, dated in Iune
1500
LIV. Her Maiesties letter to the Turke, 1581
LV. The letters patent graunted by Her Maiestie to Sir Edward Osborne and
other Marchants of London for their trade into the dominions of the
great Turke, 1581
LVI. The Queenes Commission to Master William Hareborne, to be her
Maiesties ambassadour in the partes of Turkie, 1582
LVII. The Queenes letters to the great Turke, 1582
LVIII. A letter of the Queenes Maiestie to Ali Bassa, the Turkes High
Admirall
LIX. A briefe remembrance of things to be indeuoured at Constantinople,
&c., touching our clothing and our dying, drawen by M. Richard Hakluyt
of the Middle Temple, 1582
LX. Remembrance for Master S., &c.
LXI. The voyage of the Susan of London to Constantinople
LXII. A letter of Mustapha Chaus to the Queene
LXIII. A letter of M. Harborne to Mustapha
LXIV. A petition exhibited to the viceroy for reformation of sundry
iniuries offered our nation in Morea
LXV. A commandement to Patrasso in Morea
LXVI. A commandement for Chio
LXVII. A commandement for Baliabadram
LXVIII. A commandement for Egypt
LXIX. A commandement to the Cadie of Alexandria
LXX. A commandement to the Bassa of Alexandria
LXXI. A commandement to the Cadies of Metelin and Rhodes
LXXII. A commandement for Aleppo
LXXIII. The voyage of Master Henry Austell to Constantinople
_Sub-section_ 1 The Turkes Passport for Captaine Austell
LXXIV. A Passport of the Earle of Leicester for Thomas Foster to
Constantinople
LXXV. The returne of Master William Hareborne from Constantinople ouerland
to London, 1588
LXXVI. The priuilege of Peter the prince of Moldauia graunted to the
English Marchants
LXXVII. The letters of Sinan Bassa to Queene Elizabeth
LXXVIII. A letter written by the Empresse, wife of the Grand Signior Murad
Can to the Queene, 1594
VOL. VI.
I. Dedication to the First Edition (of Vol. II., 1599)
II. The voyage of Macham on Englishman, wherein he the first of any man
discovered...Madeira,...written by Antonio Galuano
III. A briefe note concerning an ancient trade of the English marchants to
the Canarie Ilands, &c.
IV. A Description of...the Ilands of Canaria,...composed by Thomas Nicols,
&c.
V. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente Maners, Customs, and
Lawes, of the Peoples enhabiting...Affricke and Asia (1555)
(_a_) To the Righte Honourable the Erle of Arundel, &c.
(_b_) The Preface of the Authour
_The First Parte._
_Chapitre_ 1. The true opinion of the deuine, concernyng the
beginnyng of man
2 The false opinion of the Philosophre concernyng the beginnyng of
man
3 The deuision and limites of the Earthe
4 Of Ethiope, and the auncient maners of that nation
5 Of Aegipte, and the auncient maners of that people
6 Of the Poeni and thother peoples of Aphrique
_The Seconde Parte_
_Chapitre_ 1 Of Asie and the peoples most famous therein
2 Of Panchaia, and the maners of the Panqueis
3 Of Assiria and Babilonia, and the maners of those peoples
4 Iewry, and of the life, maners, and Lawes of the Iewes
5 Of Media, and the maners of the Medes
6 Of Parthia, and the maner of the Parthians
7 Of Persia, and the maners and ordinaunces of the Persians
8 Of Ynde, and the vncouth trades and maners of life of the people
therein
9 Of Scithia, and their sterne maners
10 Of Tartarie, and the maners and power of the Tartarians
11 Of Turcquie, and of the maners, lawes, and ordenaunces of the
Turcques
12 Of the Christians, of their firste commyng vp, their ceremonies and
ordenaunces
VI. The Conquest of the Grand Canaries, &c.
VII. The Summary or briefe declaration of the Admirals departing towardes
the West Indies
VIII. The Worldes Hydrographical Discription,...published by J. Dauis of
Sandrudg by Dartmouth...anno 1595, May 27
_Sub-section_ 1 To the Righte Honorable Lordes of Her Maiesties Most
Honorable Priuie Counsayle
2 The World's Hydrographical Obiections against al northerly
Discoueries
3 To proue a passage by the norwest, etc.
4 By experience of Trauellers to proue this passage
5 To proue the premisses by the attemptes of our owne countrymen,
besides others
6 By late experience to proue that America is an Iland, etc.
7 That the Ayre in colde regions is tollerable
8 That vnder the Pole is the place of greatest dignitie
9 What benefites would growe vnto Englande by this passage being
discouered
VOL. VII.
I. A voyage to the Azores with the Serpent and Mary Sparke, belonging to
Sir W. Raleigh, written by John Evesham
II. A briefe Relation of the notable service performed by Sir Francis Drake
vpon the Spanish Fleete prepared in the Road of Cadiz...in the yeere
1587
III. A True discourse written...by Colonel Antonie Winkfield emploied in
the voiage to Spaine and Portugall, 1589
IV. The Escape of the Primrose from...Bilbao in Biscay
V. The Spanish King's Commission for the generall arrest of the English
VI. The voiage of George, Earl of Cumberland to the Azores, written by
Edward Wright
VII. The valiant fight performed by 10 merchants ships of London against 12
gallies in the Straights of Gibraltar the 24. of April 1590
VIII. The valiant Fight performed in the Straight of Gibraltar between the
Centurion of London against five Spanish Gallies in April 1591
IX. A report of the trueth of the Fight about the Iles of Açores...betwixt
the Revenge...and an Armada of the King of Spaine; penned by the
honourable Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight
X. A particular note of the Indian Fleet, expected to have come into Spaine
this present yeere of 1591
XI. A report of master Robert Flicke...concerning the successe of a part of
the London supplies sent to my Lord Thomas Howard in the Azores
XII. A large Testimony of John Huighen van Linschotten concerning the
worthy exploits of the Earl of Cumberland, &c.
XIII. The miraculous victory achieved by the English Fleete under the Lord
Charles Howard upon the Spanish Huge Armada in the yeere 1588
XIV. Ad Serenissimam Elizabetham, Angliae Reginam, Theodor. Beza
XV. A briefe and true report of the Honorable voyage unto Cadiz, 1596
XVI A copie of the Lord Admirals letters to the Duke of Medina Sidonia
XVII. The Most Honourable Tragedie of Sir Richard Grinuile, 1595
XVIII. A True report of a worthy fight betweene five ships of London and 11
gallies, written by Philip Jones
XIX. Indices: viz.:--
Volume V.
Volume VI.
Volume VII.
XX. Contents: viz.:--
Volume V.
Volume VI.
Volume VII.