_ 510 _ manner, since the Lord God ordained that you should avenge the death of your son in that place and save the lives of all of us with our wives and children. As recompense for your fame and victory and for our salvation He was pleased to take Dom Fernando to Himself for him to remember you in His kingdom and celestial court and before His divine majesty and to request for Your Lordship many victories and conquests over the enemies of His holy Catholic faith, so that you may always offer Him many thanks and praise for the great and outstanding favours He conferred on you by taking your son to heaven and giving him such a great victory and honour on earth, with many more that He will give to you. Sir, we are all engaged in celebrations and merrymaking and we have given many thanks to the Lord God and offered countless blessings and praises to Your Lordship and, in a solemn invocation that we made, many of us wept with pleasure and happiness. After giving many thanks to the Lord, we implored Him to protect Your illustrious Lordship and grant you many victories, and that you should be with Him in all your affairs. This is what the priests did in the sacrifices and the masses that they said and offered to Our Lord for your victory.
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