_ 536 _ About 500 ducats have been deposited in a bank for me to do with them whatever I am instructed, such as to hand them over with interest to the said Gomes Carreiro or to try to set free some of the more penurious and necessitous Portuguese who recently arrived in Cairo as captives in Cristovão Pereira’s fusta. I shall find a way of doing this well. Your Highness will inform me by the first courier, and I shall follow what I am commanded to do. In this way, I shall send the account of what the Moors cost, and of all the expenses. As there is nothing else to recount in this letter, may Our Lord protect Your Highness’s life and property, and they increase in His service. From Rome, 27th October 1561. Lourenço Pires de Tavora On the outside; To Our Lord the King.
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