_ 484 _ which will also be recorded in the Book of standing orders which I am ordering to be written, which will remain here. Gaspar Pires, clerk of treasury accounts, wrote this in Goa on 20 August 1568. António Gis had it written. The Viceroy. Standing orders for the fortress of Ormuz for Your Lordship to see. Copy of a writ issued by Viceroy Dom Luís de Ataide(A) for a further hundred men in the fortress of Ormuz. I, D. Luís de Ataide, a member of the Council of my Lord the King and his Viceroy of India, etc., inform whoever may see this that I have considered the matter of the three hundred men that D.Antão de Noronha, former Viceroy of India, prescribed by the new standing orders he wrote this year that there should be in the fortress of Ormuz. I consider that this is insufficient for that fortress to be properly guarded and able to defend itself against any attack, and to provide soldiers for the fleets going thence to the coast to protect ships coming from India to Ormuz to pay dues to His Highness; these are taken from the men allotted to the fortress, which will then be short of men. (A) Viceroy from 10 September 1568 to 6 September 1571.
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