_ 104 _ why, as it seemed to me to be to the service of His Highness, and they are taking these deeds to ask of Your Worship compensation for their horses and mules, and what in this affair you can dispense to them, and order payment to be made from the Exchequer of His Highness; Your Worship would confer a great favour to me by doing this, and one which seems also right and in justice for, since they killed them in order to serve His Highness at the time, it is right His Highness should order them to be paid them. At the service of Your Worship. Dom Alvaro de Noronha Transcript of the Letter of Rex Nordim brought by Fernão Farto. Senhor, Fernão Farto gave me a letter of Your Worship which arrived at a very good occasion, indeed it could not be better, for it assured us of the good care Your Worship has for this land, and of the service of the King our Lord; for this land is so wrecked that if Your Worship were not to come to its relief as it has so much need of, it will be altogether lost, but now we are all happy in the belief that Your Worship will do so as thoroughly as its needs demand, for we have information that Your Worship is already making ready a large fleet for this land as is necessary, and Your Worship may believe that it already seems to us that
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