_ 139 _ In the same year (1550) Henrique de Macedo sent a letter to the learned Father Gaspar Barzio, Tabriz, on the 23rd of August 1550, mentioning the conversion of his Muslim wife to Christianity, and the intervention of Shah Tahmasp and the detention of Henrique and those with him as hostages until the arrival of Zaidi’s wife:(17) Most reverend Father After I had left that city [Ormuz] for this land of Shiraz, I wrote to tell Your Reverence what had happened up to that point. Ibrahim Khan, ruler of Shiraz and Commander in Chief of the Persians, also made me write a letter to Your Reverence, and another to the Captain, about the wife of the [Zeide], from Chaul, who has become a Christian there. I do not as yet know what happened. While I was in this (17) Document no. and reference.
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