_ 121 _ officials there in all that is required in the service of the said Lord. I also order the Guazil and officials that if any doubts or questions arise about whether kings or rulers of their ambassadors should pay dues, they are not to make decisions without notifying you, so that you can decide. Antonio Gonçalves wrote this in Goa on 22 January 1544. Antonio Cardoso has it written. By it I order that if you are able to do, they are to do nothing until you go or send as message that you cannot go because of your work. Copy of another writ of the Governor Martim Afonso de Sausa. I the Captain General and Governor of India etc inform you, Luis Falcão, Captain of the fortress of Ormuz, and the Guazil Rais Mugbil al-Din, Guazil of the Customs House of the said fortress, and the officials concerned that it is my wish because it is in the interests of His Highness, that the cloth belonging to Shah Tahmasp at present in the Customs House is to be dispatched to him freely, without any customs dues being paid. The person required to come on the Shah’s behalf must swear on the Koman according to his faith that it
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