The care with which the Turks have always offered help, both past and present, and that showed by the sultan at the time of Pope Julius the Second, is well known, and can be verified in the history by the said bishop of Algarve, book 4, folio 122.

The sultan wrote to the pope, complaining of the said kings Don Manuel and the Catholic Don Fernando--saying that the Moors whom the latter had driven away from Granada and Castilla had gone to Egipto to complain; and that King Don Manuel was pursuing the Moors through the Red Sea and neighboring regions.

He added that if this were not remedied, by ordering the said princes to desist from persecuting the Mahometans, he would destroy the holy house at Jerusalem and the sepulcher of the Redeemer.

As can be verified, the letter contains many profane remarks against Christianity.

It was sent by a Franciscan friar who lived in a monastery on the mount called Sion, and who was guardian there at Jerusalem.