_ 475 _ It appeared that Shah Tahmasp, for his ambassadors and the officials of his court, receives six hundred and six leques seventy-six azars of these dues, and he gave the said mocarraria to Turun Shah(A), the late king of Ormuz, for returning to his sect of Ali. The firman that he issued to him for this was translated in Ormuz by order of the chief treasury officer on 9 February of this year, 1568, as is declared in that document. The Kings of Rishahr(B) also received mocarrarias of nineteen leques thirty-two azars from the above amount, they and their ambassadors and officials of their household. When Martim Afonso de Melo was captain of Ormuz, Shah Tahmasp sent an army to attack this King and took him prisoner with his wives and children and kinsmen, and they were all killed in Shah Tahmasp’s court on his order because it was said they had rebelled against him. The said captain ordered aid to be sent to him when he was attacked. From that time to the present there has (A) Cf. Chronicle of the Kings of Ormuz, trad. Stevens in appendix to Travels of Pedro Teixeira, ed. W.F.Sinclair and D. Fergusson, 1902. (B) The Kings of Rishahr, ‘Reyxel’, were vassals of the Kings of Ormuz. ‘Raxel’ in Gaspar correia (Lendas, iii, p.557) and Castanheda (História, bk.VIII, chap. LXXIV). Pedro Teixeira says ‘Rexel’ (Viage desde la india Oriental hasta Italia por terra, Antwerp, 1610, p.70). João de Barros (Década IV, bk.IV, chap. 26, p.522) calls it ‘Raxel’..
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