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CHAPTER Y.

Mahomet II. dead, having already murdered

Mustapha, eldest of his three sons, the

i . . 1481

next, Bajazet, succeeded, and almost imme-diately proposed a peace with Rhodes, by a letter

from his Yizier, Achmat Bassa, dated ninth

5 7 1482

of July, 1482, 1 which D’Aubusson, thinking

proper to take the Pope’s advice on, before his

Holiness’s assent could have arrived, a strange event

occurred; namely, the third brother, Zain, after

having tried various battles to mount the throne,

and lost them all, made application to Rhodes,

and was answered in a letter still extant, dated

July 13, in which consents to receive him, not

Cod. Dipl. Gcros., ii., Num. xix. Giunt.

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