_ 179 _ I was very pleased to receive this news because it serves Our Lord and the good of this kingdom, and I am very sure that your diligence and desire to serve me in every way contributed a great deal to His Holiness’s decision to grant me this grace and favour, which I hold in great esteem for the reasons I have stated. Kiss his feet on my behalf for this. I cannot fail to be very grateful to Cardinal San Vitale for what you tell me he did not negotiate in this matter. My good will in everything that concern his deserves this, and I am writing him a letter about it, which I send you together with this one for you to give him with gratitude and such good words as occur to you. Since the said Canobio has not yet arrived, I cannot say any more to you about this but believes that what you say will come about and that there will be no change. The news I received from India this year, which you will see in an account I am sending you with another letter on this matter, and the news you sent me of that Turkish captain, who from his name seems to be the same one who went with the galleys of Ormuz. I hope are true. According to what the Viceroy of India tells me, there is some agreement in times, so it appears that they may be true. It seems best for me to send this servant of yours to you very soon for two purposes, the achievement
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