Note 055
From Chapter 64 of the Decline & Fall

See the life and death of Morad, or Amurath I., in Cantemir, (p 33 - 45), the first book of Chalcondyles, and the Annales Turcici of Leunclavius. According to another story, the sultan was stabbed by a Croat in his tent; and this accident was alleged to Busbequius (Epist i. p. 98) as an excuse for the unworthy precaution of pinioning, as if were, between two attendants, an ambassador's arms, when he is introduced to the royal presence.

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