_ 526 _ Dom João de Atayde has left for Castile. The business he came to attend to fell through. The son of the lawyer sent a Jewish relative to India with a letter to his father. He left Venice a couple of days ago, taking the news in a letter from me about the fleet in Suez and about Basra to the Count of Redondo. Dom João messenger promises that he will arrive in Goa before March and wants to take good news to his father and hopes for release. There is nothing else to say about these matters for the moment. May Our Lord watch over Your Highness’ lives and property and may you advance in His service. From Rome, 26th (sic) 1561. I said not report in my other letter that the King of Algeria was brought in chains to Constantinople and had been replaced by someone else.(A) (A) Biblioteca de Ajuda Cartas de Lourenço Pires de Távora f 279v.
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