Note 74 — Chapter II · Ibrahim the Administrator
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“By letters from Constantinople we are informed that within a fortnight the Magnifico Ibrahim Pasha was expected from Cairo with a large sum of gold. The Grand Turk has ordered him an honorable reception in a new and unusual form.” The Doge and College to Lorenzo Orio in England, Sept. 18, 1525. Brown’s Calendar of State Papers in Venice, 1520–1526, 1114.