_ 94 _ him all the honour and favour in my power, and in truth he deserves it all for his personal qualities and for his age. So, Sir, I was very glad when he arrived, and because he came so destitute and so much in debt, I rewarded him with the office of guazil and with lands in Kalhat, for himself and his heirs, to help with his expenses. Your Lordship should approve this, and I beg you to do so, considering him to be a person who deserves everything, especially from Your Lordship, because of the great benefits and rewards he says he has received from you; and his gratitude for this is such that he deserves yet more from you. Item: Your Lordship sends me a writ in which you decree that there is to be no captain of the guard here, and that His Highness has commanded this by other decrees. Rais Sharafa has just brought me this writ. Tristão d’Orta also brought a confirmation from Your Lordship in the pages of a fireman of King Shargol Shah, my father, in which he granted Tristão d’Orta the salary of captain of the guard. Your Lordship knows that I am not obliged to fulfil these writs of my father if I do not wish to, and those that I do wish, and Your Lordship’s writ which you have sent me says so. Now, Sir, I am not so rich that I can pay for everything, and Your Lordship must not believe it a good
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