_ 20 _ (6) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1547) The King sent a letter to D. Joao de Castro, Almereim on the 29th of March 1547, which contained incorrect information about the situation in Basra:(6) D João de Castro, friend, I the King send you greetings. After the carracks of this year’s fleet had left, I heard by a letter written in Venice on 10th of this month that on the 6th of the same month letters had arrived written on 2 February last to the King of France’s ambassador to Venice, from a secretary of another of the King’s ambassadors at the court of the Turk. This letter told him that the Turk’s captains had taken Basra by force of arms. This intelligence had also arrived by letters written at that time to a Jew living in Venice from another of his correspondents in Constantinople, and it further says that
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