The same authour vouched a semblable chaunce, somewhat before the
siege of Rochell 1572. where, some of the boyes banded themselues,
as for the Maior and others for the King; who after 6. dayes
skirmishing, at last made a composition, and departed: even as that
siege endured sixe moneths, and finally brake vp in a peace.
So doth Mercurius Gallobelgicus giue vs to wit, that in the
yeere 1594. a Turkish Beglerbey of Greece, either seeking by a
fore-coniecture, to be ascertained himselfe, or desirous to nusle
the yonger sort in martiall exployts, led out of Alba Regalis,
about 600. Turkish boyes, aged betweene 11. and 14. yeeres, and
seuered them into two troups, terming the one, The Christian,
the other, The Turkish batalion. Those, he directed to call
vpon Iesus, these, vpon Hala: both parts he enioyned to bicker
coragiously, and egged them onward with the enticement of rewards.
The token is giuen, the forces encounter, the fight is hote. In the
end, the Turks betake themselues to their heeles, and Iesus party
carryeth away the victory.
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