_ 392 _ into effect what had been already agreed in accordance with my advice. I await His Holiness’s answer and I trust in the Lord’s goodness that everything will be done as may best further His Holy service. I am not writing to the Most Reverend Amulio, but Your Lordship may advise him of this and offer him my services. For the time being there is no news of the Abyssinian that I may send you, but it is believed that everything is peaceful and quiet there. I have some things to say which might well result in much glory to the Lord and profit to His Highness, but I do not think it wise to commit this to writing in a letter. I hope to see Your Lordship and I will then bring forth all that in these parts I conceived as being good. My disposition is what it was hitherto, heri et nudius tertius, and there being no further news to impart may Our Lord always have Your Lordship’s most illustrious person in His keeping, with gladness in His Holy service as He wishes. From Cairo, January 18, 1566. Kissing Your Lordship’s illustrious hands. Mathias Biqudo Furtado On the reverse:
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