_ 95 _ kings rebelled, they were made vassals owing obedience to the Kings of Portugal for a second time. These are the grounds His Majesty now has for not paying from his treasury paying macarrias for the King of Persia and others named in the firman of the Kings of Ormuz, by which they gave them the custom house. It would be a good thing for His Majesty to command his Council to make sure of this, so that his viceroys in India would not accept for a moment that His Majesty should be a tributary of the Kings of Persia, of Lar and others, and this would not be left to the inclination of viceroys who diminish the Royal Treasury according to the whim of the King and Guazil of Ormuz demanding that they should pay these macarrias when His Majesty does not have any obligation to pay them. The customs house of Ormuz brings the kings over two hundred thousand cruzados per year, and if its officials were not so profligate in thieving dues it would yield more than three hundred and fifty thousand cruzados. If dues were paid on the coins and silver ingots that come from Basra and enter there every year from the Basra area, even though it were not more than five percent and if it were ordered that goods purchased by these Turks should
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