_ 80 _ Your Highness must believe that if you send us anyone else as Captain, Ormuz will be ruined, but by giving us João Rodrigues you will be doing a favour to the King and all the people, and it will be to your advantage. I am writing to Your Highness as I am your servant and wish everything in your interests to have a good end. You will know, Sire, that Roque Esteves is coming with Mir Lasaa in whom the King and everyone has confidence because of the good service he has done Your Highness. I beg Your Highness that you will receive and reward him, as he deserves it for the long time he has served. This will help to populate this city. Your Highness will know that in the time of the late King your father, my father was alguacil in this city of Ormuz, and in return for the great service he did he was pleased to grant that as long as he lived he should be alguacil of Ormuz, and after his death his sons would be, and if he had no sons, his closest kinsmen. Since the death of my father, I am alguacil in Your Highness’s service [...] when I have to die, and because these are my [...] wishes. I am writing to Your Highness so that you will use me and each of these likewise, for I account myself committed to this. For the love and amity, I have for your service, I beg
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