_ 41 _ (7) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1542) The description of the events of 1542, as mentioned in the book: “Da Asia Nova” by the Portuguese historian Diogo do Couto, and the measures taken by the governor of India, Martim de Sosa, in examining the laws followed and matters related to the treasury:(7) Some actions of the Governor Martim Afonso de Sousa, and the fleet which left Portugal this year, 1542; how the Governor and António Cardoso, the Secretary, embarked for Cochin. As soon as Governor Martim Afonso took over the governorship, he began to enquire into law and treasury matters, and he discovered a considerable deficit in the tribute paid by the Kings of Ormuz, with which Governor D. Estévão had been concerned last summer. In order that
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