The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 182 _ This is written in the month of moarem in the year 948 in the era of Mohammed. The Guazil, Rais Nur Uddin, caused this to be written. The firman was transcribed well and faithfully from the Record in the same words as those which are found in the …….. book, without anything being added or left out. It has been composed by Alvaro de Palma, the factory scrivener, and Diogo Lopes da Serra, the scrivener of the Treasury. They both signed here with me as did pedro Alvares, a scrivener in the factory at Ormuz, on the last day of the month of October of the year of the birth of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, 1565. Gasper Peres de Matos, Treasury Controller in this city, ordered it to be transcribed and to be sent to our Lord, the King. Alvaro Palma Pedro Alvares Diogo Lopes da Serra Transcription of the new firman whereby the King, Ferugo Shah handed over the Customs House at Ormuz to our Lord the King, because Salgor Shah’s firman which is to be found on the reverse does not specifically state the words “hand over| as will be seen therein. The memorandum dictated by former Kings of Ormuz and by the present King is almost the same as that of Salgor

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