_ 440 _ Our Lord and of Your Highness. If Dom Goncalo pursues his dutles with the fervour of his true and good zeal for religion, I fear that this will result in the arrival in Basra and Cairo of many experienced people from those parts, and that they will, with news and warnings, help enemies in affairs of money and war. I believe that there will be no lack of safe-conducts and promises to assist their passage. Not all lands give seed. India's has not the quality to bear fruit such as one hopes for, both spiritual and temporal, with such reliability. Both the spiritual and temporal aspects of this situation would mean that the authority of the Inquisition should be imposed gently and benignly. Your Highness must have given all this due consideration, and I cannot be blamed if, in your service, I always express my opinion, with the goodwill and respect it is my duty to feel as your subject and a Christian. May Our Lord preserve and increase Your Highness’s life and royal estate in his service. Rome, last day of November 1560.
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