_ 30 _ Sir, I write no more now to Your Highness, because the Journey requires me to stop, but only remind Your Highness of Reis Sharif my guazil, whom I hold as a father, because he is a loyal servant of Your Highneses and mine. God be praised that with the arrival of so good a captain trade is so great that as much comes in caravans as by sea, which brings to the customs house more than it ever did. From Ormuz, 13 July 1528. (Royal Chancery) Sir, Your Highness will already know that I wrote to you through my ambassador [Mira Lexar] about the ruin of this kingdom and not having as much revenue as before. We hoped that Your Highness would ask something less in the way of tribute, and we have news that Your Highness has done us this favour. When Mira Lexar came, he told us that it was true that you were going to grant us this favour, except that according to a letter sent from here there was sufficient revenue for this. I would hold it a favour if Your Highness would not listen to the untruthful things that people say, and hope that Your Highness will agree to lower this tribute payment a little because the expenses of the country are heavy, and the revenue is very small.
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