_ 33 _ of estate, the supreme head which lowers and rules in the Kingdom of Portugal, King Sebastian, on whom may happiness always be in the increase with all good and prosperous end in eternity. After the reception of this present our letter under the worthy and imperial seal of us to all who shall see this, as at present to our sublime high and invincible most powerful potentate, which is full of all the virtue of the world and repository of great magnanimity and worthy of all honour and of the greatest princes and seignors of the world, it was made known to us by route of Arabia, brought by one of your honourable men who was sent from your India, and had been elected from among his peers and Christian lords, and empowered with sufficient credentials and powers by name Antonio Tessen Asevedo. How it was your desire to heal for peace and conclude an armistice with our elected Governors of our country whom we have chosen and placed in that part, and as by way of Italy there had been sent a letter of yours for the self same cause, forwarded by a signed letter of the aforesaid Ambassadors through Nicolo Petro Coejino, according to the ancient custom and usage observed which requires that a second letter be received in which the same intention
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