LXXXI [f. 61v; Sathas VI, 202]

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or send them away and evict them from this country of the Morea. He said he did
not want to do this without my opinion and agreement, because they are subjects of
Your Lordship and he wants to use every cruelty against them, so that he can get rid
of these evil thorns from the country, so that his subjects and ours can live in peace,
and that anything he is going to do, he wants always to discuss with me, and when he
has set in process the collecting of the haraç of the Morea, he would come back here
with a few loyal companions and confer with me in greater detial on several more matters
for our masters.
In addition, he said that he had learned that Your Lordship had decided to send to
raise stratioti in these parts, and is confident that we have a way to put these Albanian
thieves, both ours and his, on board ship and send them away from this country, indeed,
to send them to Cyprus or to Candia or to Friuli, or to some island, so that they never
have to return to this country, so that lacking these evil thorns, the country can live
in peace and tranquillity. I will make an appropriate response to these words, orally by
the present messenger, because the flamburar has instructed me that it is not secure to
handle matters by way of letter. This is what happened with the flamburar: I wished to
give specific information to Your Sublimity.
By way of Athens from Turks recently come from the Porte, we learn that the
Lord Turk is at Adrianople, where he mustered his forces, as it is rumoured, making
it known to them that they go against Hungary.
Further, they say that the eunuch pas¸a 239 who was a captive at Naples in the hands
of King Ferdinand, has been freed with 25 other Turks of high rank, and has left and gone
to Adrianople with an ambassador of the king to make peace, which must have been
concluded. 240 Nothing else. To whose grace, etc.
239 The first flamburar of the Morea with whom Minio negotiated. See Letters IV and VI.
240 This is the conclusion of events that began with Mehmet II’s attack on Otranto. See Letters XV–XVIII for
Minio’s reports on the sailing of the Ottoman fleet to Otranto in May-June 1480.
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