_ 130 _ (15) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1545) A directive was issued by His Majesty the King stressing the prohibition of the Portuguese from acting aggressively towards the King of Ormuz and his followers, Ivora, on the 14th of March 1545:(15) Dom João, by the grace God, King of Portugal and of the Algarve, here and over there, in Africa, Lord of Guinea and of the conquest, navigation and trade in Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia and India, etc. To all those who see this my letter, I make known that the King of Ormuz has complained to me that my Captains and officials in that city have been forcing him to give them tunics, both on their arrival in that Kingdom and at times of annual festivities. They also force him to grant them the privilege of a horse and a cruzado, all of which he has had to give them
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