Transaction 11344

payde for two bokes of common prayer agaynste invading of the Turke 

Paid for two books of common prayer against invading of the Turk. 

Editor's note:

12. In 1565, there is a charge of six pence for two common-prayer books “against invading of the Turke.” It was thought the common cause of the Christian state in Europe to oppose the progress of the Turkish arms by all methods, both civil and religious. And this year the Turks had made a descent upon the isle of Malta, where they besieged the town and castle of St. Michael, when, upon the approach of the Christian fleet, they broke up the siege, and suffered a considerable loss in their flight, as may be seen in Thuanus, lib. XXXVIII. And as the war was carried on between them and the emperor Maximilian in Hungary, the like prayer books were annually purchased for the parish till the year 1565 inclusive.