_ 129 _ ask it, so that they should not know that we are writing Your Highness. Senhor, we beg of you to tear up this letter and let is not be seen but by Your Highness, else we shall be put to death because Pero Fernandes who wrote before to the Queen our lady is a great friend of Jorge Garces. Alderman, and performs his acts for the love of Our Lord, so that through our writing the truth no evil should accrue to us. May God all powerful increase the life and royal estate of Your Highness. From the Trades of your city of Goa on the twenty fifth of November one thousand five hundred and fifty-two. Martin Gomes. Diogo Fernandes. Joam Martins. Alvaro Fernandes. On the superscription To the King our Lord From the Trades of Your city of Goa.
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