_ 464 _ In the same year (1561) Jill de Guise sent a letter to the queen, on the 22nd of January 1561, mentioning the occupation carried out by the Portuguese fleet around Basra:(55) My Lady, notwithstanding that Your Highness has no knowledge of me, according as it appears from the few favours I have received from the King our Lord, I will not desist, for all that, from ending my life at his service with all the good will of those who have been favoured with great favours from Your Highness. I am son of the D. Francisco Toscano, whom the King Dom João (may he be in Holy Glory) sent here as his Chancellor and Commissary in Chief, and it is now fifteen years that I serve in these parts, and I am permanently in the service of the King our Lord, and with the coming of (55) Document no. and reference.
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