There marched before the Grand Signior, otherwise called the Great Turke, 6,000. Esperes, otherwise called light horsemen, very braue, clothed all in scarlet.

After marched 10,000. men, called Nortans, which be tributaries to ye Great Turk, clothed all in yellow veluet, and hats of the same, of the Tartarie fashion, two foote long, with a great robe of the same colour about their foreheads, richly decked, with their bowes in their hands, of the Turkish fashion.

After them marched foure Captaines, men of armes, called in Turkish Saniaques, clothed all foure in crimson veluet, euery one hauing vnder his banner twelue thousand men of armes, well armed with their morrions vpon their heads, marching in good order, with a short weapon by their sides, called in their language Simittero.

After came 16,000. Ianizaries, called the slaues of the Grand Signior, all afoote, euery one hauing his harquebushe, who be his gard, al clothed in violet silke, and apparelled vpon their heads with a strange forme, called Cuocullucia, fashioned in this sort: the entring in of the forehead is like a skull made of white veluet, & hath a traine hanging downe behinde, in manner of a French hoode, of the same colour, and vpon the forepart of the saide skull, iust in the middes of his forehead, there is standing bolt vpright like a trunke of a foote long of siluer, garnished most richely with Goldsmiths worke, and pretious stones, and in the toppe of the saide trunke a great bush of feathers, which wauereth vp and downe most brauely when he marcheth.