Purposing to certifie your Lordship of the pompe and great triumph at the presenting of the Captaines of the Sea, vnto the great Turke: the miserie and vnhappines of the poore prisoners: the discorde & contention that came by the sonne of the Vice Roy of Naples, being prisoner: the threatnings made to the Christians: the receiuing of the Ambassadors of the Soffy: the pompes, tryumphes, and entertainments made vnto them, and yet dissembled enough, with mocking one the other at their departing: the presents giuen: the going of the great Turke a hunting and all other thinges written at large, as your Lordship shall vnderstand. But now your Lordship shall vnderstand at thys time, the greatest, the most wonderfull, and most strange thing that euer was heard of. The which partly hath so troubled the great Turke, and all the rest, that they haue left of all other affayres, to prouide for the perrill and danger that at this time hangeth ouer theyr heads. Your Lordships to vse, Signior Valesco. _Newes from Rome_ ⁂ The newes are come that the king of _Hungarie_ maketh a great Army, which shall haue for his ayde the gallies of _Buda_, and of many other Princes of Christendome. And they say moreouer, that the king of _Bohemia_ will helpe therein, and that the most part of Christian Princes will come and ayde him in this enterprise against the Turke, except the Signorie of _Venice_, which medleth nothing at all in it. These reporters of newes affirme, that there shal come aboue a hundred gallies, besides other Barks, ships, & Hulkes without number, which is occasion that they hasten the warre the more. Notwithstanding, men esteeme not so much hereof, as of the war that is made beyond the Mountaines, as you shall understand not without wondering at it. The _Tartars_ make friendes upon the greater Sea, & haue made a league & friendship with the great Turke, requiring ayde, for they are molested with war by the great Emperour of _Muscouia_, & prince of _Sagodie_, of _Pogore_, of _Smelengie_, of _Drossy_, of _Gazam_, of _Virgolosam_, of _Tartarie_, of _Cham_, and of diuers other people and regions lying toward the South: they say that this Emperor or Duke hath two Armies, and is called _Iohn Dwatillo_, a young man, of the age of xxiiii. yeeres, noble and valiant, and a Christian, after the institution of the Greekes, and presumeth that by reason of his blood, the Empire of _Constantinople_ doth belong to him, And these two Armies are about two hundred thousand horse.