Note 307 — Chapter IV · THE RULING INSTITUTION: AS AN ARMY

Postel, iii. 87, says, about 1537: Suleiman “has among others a son named Mustapha, marvelously well educated and prudent and of the age to reign; for he is 23 or 24 years old; and God grant that so great an atrocity may not come so near us (Dieu ne permette qu’une Barbarie si grande vienne si pres de nous).”