_ 137 _ him at once apprehended, and he was not allowed to leave his prison until he had paid the sixty thousand ducats, and the expenses and costs which were incurred in this affair, and he dismissed him from the lordship he held, which it is said was very extended, as he was considered a grand signor and the whole of Soria obeyed him. On the twenty second of this same month of November there arrived letters from Constantinople of the Baylo of this lordship who is there, and other letters to private persons, in which it said that on the first of last October, there had arrived the Ambassador and Baylo of this lordship, called Pedrogem, he who had been many years in Turkey as Baylo of these, and it is said that he was greatly esteemed and welcomed by the Turk, with many banquets and presents, and great marks of affection and feasts; after this welcome the said Pedrogen went with his embassage to the Turk, and presented to him in the name of the Seigniority of Venezia. A beautiful present of the value of upwards of ten thousand ducats, in cloths of silk, cloth of gold, scarlets and crystalline glasses, looking glasses of fine make and works in glass of fine workmanship and of great value, mirrors of steel (?) with an outside frame of silver and gold and precious stones of great worth; a clock which cost five
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