_ 45 _ and one of the principal rulers in those parts; where too he made fortresses with which, and with the help of Our Lord, he secured the said city, and also having regard to the many and great services he rendered us in those parts as in the Red Sea when by our command he entered it with our fleet. Seeing that on his death he leaves only Afonso de Albuquerque, his natural son, whom it is reasonable to repay in some part and to reward the services of so honoured a father, in order to do what it is fitting to be done for the sons of such people, and in order that his services may be remembered for ever, we of our own accord, certain knowledge, free will and power, without beige requested by the said Afonso de Albuquerque his son, or by others for him. By this present letter give and grant an annual sum, as an inheritance, to him and for all his male descendants in the direct line from the next first day of January 1516 onwards, of three hundred thousand reis, which we wish to be entered and paid to him in our Casa da sisa do pescado [fishing tax house] in this city of Lisbon, on this day of the year henceforward without interruption, by this letter alone without further order, from our estate. This we order our quartermaster etc.
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