_ 112 _ letter to Your Lordship no supplies have been placed in this fortress, and the fleet which should go out to serve the King and Your Lordship is being built with so many delays in sending the materials necessary for it because he says that there is no money, that it will not be able to leave when needed, and His Highness's interests cannot be properly served. Writing this to Your Lordship by letter does not appear to be such an important matter as it is. I swear to Your Lordship by my faith, duty and homage that I am writing this to you only because it is in the service of His Highness, for as a result of this situation some hardship or disaster may occur here. For this reason it appears to me that Your Lordship should send me a writ, so that when he says that there is no money he shows me what he has spent it on. In this way the interests of the King, our Lord, will be wholly served. Although I am requesting this writ of Your Lordship, I do not wish it to appear that I would like to become Chief Treasury Officer, for I would not be that in this locality of Ormuz at any price. Diogo Espinel, alcaide of the sea and warden of the carracks is a man who faithfully serves His Highness here.
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