_ 63 _ great outlay, and loss of men, and if Your Highness takes a proper diligence in the matter, to carry on and crush this fancy of his, he will do nothing further nor undertake a fleet on the Red Sea, and not forming one, Your Highness will remain a peaceful lord. The Grand Master is alarmed at there being no letters of Your Highness in reply to his making known to Your Highness the capture of the fleet of the Soldan, because the Pope and the King of Spain, and the King of England and other Christian Princes to whom it concerned no further than to be pleased at the reverse of the infidels, have already replied, and greatly lauded the act, and that Your Highness, for whom this was done under my order and deed you should not have thanked so great a service, is inexplicable, what the cause can be, and at times when this is broached to me I excuse it by saying that the letters must have become lost. Your Highness should know the cause, and I am of opinion that many letters that I send you are detained and do not reach your hands, and this I imagine of in this case because I have come to know that the letters of the Grand Master which I sent from the quarter of despulla (?) of the Prior of Crate, whom God has, that went some three years ago, I am written (?) to know that Your Highness has only
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