News come latle from Pera, of two most mightis Armies as well of footmen as of Horsemen, translated out of Italien, to French and so into Engleshe. And first of the great Duke of Moscovia & of the Soffy, And the other of an Hebrew people never spoken of before, found not long ago coming from the Mountains called Caspii, with a new invention of Weapons, with the number of the Squadrons, and with the names of two Earls & captains. And the cause why the great Turk hath forbidden wine, with many other news never hard of.  
 depiction of two groups of knights in armour on horseback charging each other, with weapons and bodies on the ground   

AFter the particular things alleged in mi writing, to your lordship, I thought it good and convenient by this my letter to advertise you singularelie of certain great, horrible, & fearful things that are reported in this quarter. In the other letter that I wrote unto your lordship I showed you the pomp and great triumph at the presenting of the captain of the sea, unto the great Turk, The misery and unhappiness of the poor prisoners. The dyscords and contention that came by the son of the Vice Roy of Naples, being prisoner.  
The threatenings made to the Christians. The receiving of the ambassadors of the Soffy. The pomps, triumphs, & intertaynementes made unto them, and yet dissembled enough with mocking one the other, at their departing.  
The presents given. The going of the great Turk a Hunting, & all ●●●●r things written at large, 〈…〉 ●●derstod of your lordship. But in another letter of mine I told you of the preparation of ●● army: of the brave & proud Triumph of this Turk & how ye changed suddenly even in a moment 〈◊〉 a murning ●or heaven took these things in disdain by a great mortality and death, which was so much the worse because ye began in the beginning of Summer. There happened also afterward in the same town (peradventure never the like) to weet, a great & continual dearth of all things. A horrible and fearful chance which was upon the Sea called Mare Maius, the loss of the great multitude of ships the sorrow of the great Turk for the prohibjtion of wine to his loss and hedrance more than a hundredth and fifty thousand Ducats. The cruelty used toward a Turk that had drunk wine putting him to death by powringe molten Lead into his throat. The driving out of whores of this town The prohibition and forbidding that no Christian being married, may dwell there, the defence that no Turk shall were any Beard. All the which things either causeth a great wondering, fere, 〈◊〉 sorrow, so that men say that the grea●●●●ke raveth, or that he do the it for the nonce, to the intent that his son Selim●● returning these foresaid things unto him (might get the favour of the Genissaries. I have dyscoursed this, and can yet make rehearsal of many things upon these matters 〈◊〉 thing of greater importance did pluck me away from it, and so I leave it of.  
But now men shall understand at this time the greatest, the most wondered & most horrible thing that ever was herd of. The which partli hath so troubled the great Turk. and all the rest, that the have left of all other affairs, to provide for the peril & danger that at this time hangeth over their head & carrieth them. News are come that the king of Spain waketh a great army, which shall have for his eide the Galeys of Gene of Malt, of Florence of Naple, & of many other Princes of christendom. And they sai more over that the king of France will help therein, and that the most part of Christian Princes will come and aid him in this enterprise, except the most noble state & Sinorie of venyce which meddeleth nothing at all it. These reporters of news affirm that there shall more than a hundredth galeys, beside other Barks Ships and Hulks with out number, which is occasion that they hast the army the more. The which thing not withstanding men esteem not so much as the ware that is made beyond the Mountains, as you shall understand not without great wondering at it. The Tartars make friends upon the greater sea & have made a league and friendship with the great Turk, requiring aid, for they are molested with war by the great duke of moscovia, and prince of Sagodie, of Pogore, of Smo●egye, of Drossye, of Gazam, of Virg●los●m, of Cerearie, of cham, of Bieracham, lately gotten of the Cirenssiens, and of divers other people and regions dying toward the South. They say that this emperor or duke hath two armies, and is called Iho● Dw●tillo, a young man of the age of xxiiii years, noble and valiant, and a christian after the institution of the Greeks, and presumeth that by reason of his blood the empire of Constantinople doth belong to him. And these two armies are about a two hundred thousand horse. They were not wont in time past to be so strong, nor so feared of the Turks, for they had not the use of artillery in the war. But now they have marvelous great preparation their war. He hath in wages certain Dutch captains. And about a ten thousand master gonners, & is marvelous well furneshed with harkebuses & artillery. And because men understand that he hath so dressed the Tartariens & brought them to such a state that the can not much more resist him. And that if that said Moscovites should be masters over the Tartars the should consequentli be rulers of the greater sea, & the way should be open and easy for them to come, not only to Constantinople, but also to drive the turk out of Europe. And because that the said great Turk is assured of this enterprise and commotion of the Greeks, he hath concluded & deteermined, to sand to they said Tartars a good assistance of fifteen thousand fighting men & also for this purpose he hath sent to the sea, ten galeyes to pass them over. Men make mention and dought of Mondatcio, which is a great prince and ruler, & able to make fourscore or a hundred thousand horse. And yet men are uncertain whose part he will take, because he is tributar: unto the great Turk. There is news also from Africa, that the king of Bugien, the king of Tramece, the king of Tunts the children of Serit. The lord of Murocho & of Gran with the Arrabians and other have taken in hand to drive and expulse the turk holly out of Africa, and to endamage the said turk as much as the may. Men know not well yet in what place they will war. But we shall know it shortly The newies also is that the Soffy is in Camp with a great army, and hath the Medes to help him which border upon the Caspian Sea, and of on side neighbour to the Hyreans, called at this day Correxans and Necotans, with whom he hath made a League & peace. And there are on his side also the Ibeians, and Albanians, and also the people of Melibax which border upon the indians, and likewise with the king of Bosphorus, all being people marvelous swift & nimble. In this so mighty an host and army is also Baicey the son of the great Turk, By means whereof, all in those parts is in grate trouble, as well as here, It seemeth that the Genyssaryes bring him the lot of Turki, as Baduget, Nermonia, Aleppo, and all the Region lying near to the Soffe is revolted, All the which particularites shallbe understood more at large. This news is great, and hath made the great Turk to muse enough upon it. But above all these maruelus and dreadful news which are happened there is yet chanced another which hath sere & a bashed generally all men which nevertheless seemeth to be incredible. And yet it is most certain & that is, that a people here to fore unknown, mighty, swift, and marvelous nimble, hath taken weapon in hand to the dysaduantage & loss of the house of Ottoman. They say that Alexander the great did in time passed drive beyond the Mountain Caspe nine tribes & a half of the Hebrews which worshipped the Calf and Serpent of gold, and drove them a way, that never sins there was no news of them, neither knew any man if they were in the world or not. But because the sea of Sand or the sandy sea, By a certain inconvenience of sand Gravel or Beech, swelled and rose so high that it utterly took from them the wai into this our region. But now by the mean of the new Navigation that the Spaneardes have made, they are arrived in their country, and have espied out all their doings. And after that the said Spaniards had instructed and taught them they science and knowledge of artyllerye, & gone powder for Harkebuses & Dags whereunto there horses are marvelous apt & ready, the are become in all things very perfect. After this, the egged them for ward to take weapon in hand and to pass the said Mountain by land. And because the sea of sand o● the sandy se did hinder th●●r passage, it appeareth that some Spaniard or Italien, which yet men know not, but not withstanding, some great Astrologian or Cosmographer taught them the way making some hill plain with her, so that the made themselves a wai veriely, which is a thing of great wonder. Now these people have two mighty great armies & infinite victuals, they country being very fertile & fruitful, & also almaner of preporation for war, & there are Spaniards among them so well exercised in the feat of artillery, as hand guns and dags. that is a wonder. And they say, that they will come & recover the land of promise, toward the which the first armi is already veri near, not without great terror and dread of every man, which hath been seen of divers & numbered, and finally report to the great turk, both the number and quantity as you shall understand here following.  
The spies say, not only one, but many, that would see and understand all things, that the Saugiatari which border upon them & are their neighbours write & testify, that beside a hundred and ●●o armies there follow other infinit● people, as well footmen, as horsemen, and that first army is already arrived upon the limits & borders of the Turks, and put all to fire and sword. And their language is bastard Hebrew. And because men speak of it much hear: I will not forget to speak also some thing thereof worthy to be noted, and well understood. The hebrews of Constantinoble say that the●●●atie certain prophecies among the which the one maketh mention that from the four part of the world shall rise a people and come into Gog & Magog, and then shall appear (as they persuade themselves there Messiah in might and power, & then they shall have dominion and rule in the world, whereof they secretly rejoice & are wondrous glad. They say more over that there is a prophesy graven in a pillar set at Podromo, which saith thus. A mighty prince shall rise, whose beginning shall be of small reputation, but he shall ware of such force and strength (with the help of god (that he shall bring to nothing the empire and rule of Ottoman, & shall be the right possessor and inheritor of the empire of Constantinoble. And the valeur 〈…〉 ●●●●be this Emperor & d●●e● 〈…〉, which is all ready in great estimation among the Greckes. The Turks have a propheci which they sing all ways in weepping bitterly, which berokeneth & denounceth unto the their utter ruin and destruction. And although it sem's strange to say that the Turks have prophecies, it is no meruele: For Balam was a false Prophet. The Sybilles' prophesied & were Pagans. For all these causes the great Turk hath forbidden wine, and will that almen go true times in a day to the Moschea, & pray to god for their health and safety. And so he prepareth .3. great Armies on a 'gainst the Moscovites, another again the Soffy, and the third for to go against the Hebrews of the Mountains of Caspii. Within these few days you shall have other news, wherefore this making an end I commend me unto your good grace  
from Pera the first day of of March. 1561. your faithful and trusty servant, Andrew Ben accorso,   


The description of the first Army of the hebrews.  
first of all of the tribe of Reuben a king of very great stature of a fleshi colour, more red than otherwise, with broad eyes, called Loroam, is captain general of all the Armies which leadeth under his Ensaigne twelve thousand Horse & xx thousand foot men. The horsemen are Armed after a light sort but veri good Harnese almost after our fashion. The crri long lances of long reeds veri hard and light, so sharp pointed that the pass thorough a thing so lightly that it is incredable. The carry shield or Targetes of bone, & in stead of sword certain Courtylasses.  
They are aparayled with the colour of their ensaigne, and all clothed with Silk. The foot men carry Pikes of the same sort with Helmet & Habergyn. Their Ensaigne is of black silk & blue, with a Dog following a Hart or Buck and a saying written in it which is in our tongue either quick or dead.   

two. Of the Tribe of Gad.  
THere is one called Fares which is an Earl, young and valiant not regarding this present life. This man hath fifteen hundred horsemen armed lightly only on the fore part and head piece: but this armure is so well tempered and wrought that it keepeth out alance and harquebuse-shotte.  
This manner of arming themself the prince, to the intent the may never turn there back to run away. The bane also fires and light horses. There are eighteen thousand footmen apparelled with a kind of sodod leather, of the skin of a certain beast, so that no pike nor hargebushe can pearl it. These men are beastly people which will never fly for any thing, and are very obedyet and subject unto their prince, they are appareled in silk. And the eseigne is a falcon pecking or bylling with another bird with a sentence that saith. Ether thine or mine shall break,   

iii. Of the tribe of Asser.  
THere is a Marquis of galair called Gooes. This man leadeth fifteen hundred men at arms, which be all exceedingly well armed, & it out, strong, and rebust men Their horses be moryskes, the greatest the strongest, the fairest, and the best that be in the world. There are also seventeen thousand soldiers very well ordered and appointed with lance & harquebus. Their Ensine or arms is a red field with a maid clothed in green, holding a lion in her hand, and hath these words I hope to subdue a greater thing.   

iiii. Of the tribe of Neptalym.  
there is a duke of Falach, called Obeth, who hath under his conduct twenty thousand footmen armed with a certain metal like iron but it is light & hard. They have many good sword, lances and other force Harquebuses and witie lars. Their Ensign or arms is a Mermaid in a black field, & they devise thus. My singing shall not cease until death.   

V Manasses.  
OF the Tribe of Monasses there is a Captain called Natison which hath under him twenty thousand men appointed & armed with the skin of a serpent most hard & stiff The have axes or Pole-axes, Pikes, harquebuses, and other kinds of weapons showing a great bravery. And there Ensene or arms is a whit● snale in a black field, with a devil a bout it. By little and little men go very far.  
vi. Of the tribe of simeon the● 〈◊〉 prince of Arsai whose name is not yet known. But they say he is a devil, great, gross, & thick beyond measure, with a statte nose, and both he & his men are so of the stature of giants. And leadeth with him twety thousand footmen almost all Alfiers. Which are also swift and nymbell, that they will take horses running, they make a marvelous noise such as no people use. There Ensign is an Cute in a black field, & have for their posy. Such is my government.