_ 48 _ In the same year (1572) A statement was issued on the victories of the Portuguese in India, a minutes of the Embassy of Portugal, Madrid, on the 28th of February 1572, and about the Christian alliance against the Turks:(16) Don Juan de Borja, member of our Council and our ambassador [in Portugal]. The Venetian ambassador resent here has told me that the ambassador from that Republic there [in Portugal] has informed him that my nephew the Serene King [Sebastião] intends to send an ambassador to the Sophy, the King of Persia, buy the fleet which is leaving for India on 25 March. He will inform him of the League that has been formed against the Turk, the common enemy of Christendom, and of the great victory which Our Lord granted the League’s (16) Document no. and reference.
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