_Mahomet_ the Great _Turk_, during the Siege, had raised an Army of Sixty thousand Men to have relieved it; but hearing it was lost, he sent _Assan Bashaw,_ General of his Army, the _Bashaw_ of _Buda, Bashaw Amaroz,_ to see if it were possible to regain it; The Duke understanding there could be no great experience in such a new levied Army as _Assan_ had, having put a strong Garrison into it, and with the brave Colonel _Rosworme, Culnits, Meldritch,_ the _Rhine Grave, Vahan,_ and many others, with Twenty thousand good Soldiers, set forward to meet the _Turk,_ in the Plains of _Girk._ {MN-1} Those two Armies encountred as they marched, where began a hot and bloody Skirmish betwixt them, Regiment against Regiment, as they came in order, till the night parted them: Here Earl _Meldritch_ was so invironed among those half circular Regiments of _Turks,_ they supposed him their Prisoner, and his Regiment lost; but his two most couragious Friends, _Vahan_ and _Culnits,_ made such a Passage amongst them, that it was a terror to see how Horse and Man lay sprawling and tumbling, some one way, some another on the Ground. The Earl there at that time made his valour shine more bright than his Armour, which seemed then painted with _Turkish_ Blood; he slew the brave _Zanzack Bugola,_ and made his Passage to his Friends, but near half his Regiment was slain. Captain _Smith_ had his Horse slain under him, and himself sore wounded; but he was not long unmounted, for there was choice enough of Horses, that wanted Masters. The _Turk,_ thinking the Victory sure against the Duke, whose Army, by the Siege and the Garrison, he had left behind him, was much weakened, would not be content with one, but he would have all; and lest the Duke should return to _Alba Regalis,_ he sent that Night Twenty thousand to besiege the City, assuring them, he would keep the Duke or any other from relieving them. Two or three days they lay each by other, entrenching themselves; the _Turks_ daring the Duke daily to a sett Battle, {MN-2} who at length drew out his Army, led by the _Rhine-Grave, Culnits,_ and _Meldritch_ who upon their first Encounter, charged with that resolute and valiant courage, as disordered not only the foremost Squadrons of the _Turks,_ but enforced all the whole Army to retire to the Camp, with the loss of five or six thousand, with the _Bashaw_ of _Buda,_ and four or five _Zanzacks,_ with divers other great Commanders, Two hundred Prisoners, and nine pieces of Ordnance. At that instant appeared, as it were, another Army coming out of a Valley over a plain Hill, that caused the Duke at that time to be contented, and to retire to his Trenches; which gave time to _Assan,_ to reorder his disordered Squadrons: Here they lay nine or ten days, and more Supplies repaired to them, expecting to try the event in a sett Battle; but the Soldiers on both Parties, by reason of their great Wants, and approach of Winter, grew so