_ 9 _ (1) Document no. and reference. Episodes of the year 1552 Dom Afonso de Noronha sent a letter to King of Cochin, on the 27th of January 1552, informing him of the situation in the region:(1) This letter from the Viceroy D. Afonso de Noronha suggests a perhaps ill-founded optimism. Before the passage relating to the three Chrisian Kings(A) D. Afonso relates the following facts: 1. D. Antão de Noronha had attacked and destroyed the Turkish fortress at EI Katiff. 2. There was another fortress, at Basra, which could also (A) Transilator’s note: These were Kings of Ceylon (son of the old king by a sister of the queen, who had been brought up by the Viceroy) the Lord of Trincomalee and the King of the Maldives, claimed as convers by the Jesuits.
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