70 freedom from the bond of slavery. This, the father did. Then, Feroz Shah asked his father to marry her as a free woman. This, he did, too. Not long afterwards, king Ferug Shah passed away after he had ruled the kingdom of Hormuz for 36 years. His succession became an issue of dispute again between Feroz Shah who took over the rule of Hormuz and Turan Shah who had claims to the throne which he brought before the authorities in Goa. In February 1602, the Viceroy in India, Arias de Saldanha, interfered and ruled in favour of Feroz, being the eldest son. However, he was to be a governor only, until the dispute was settled once and for all. In 1606, the Archbishop of Goa who, at the time was the Ruler of India in the absence of the Viceroy in India, D. Martin Afonso de Castro, was eagerly waiting for such an opportunity. As the Viceroy was away, he ordered the arrest of Turan Shah and put him in prison charging him with sodomy. For a whole year afterwards owing to the absence of evidence to support this charge, the Archbishop of Goa, Acting Viceroy in India, exercised his authority to force upon the court judges
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