_ 155 _ are his relatives(A). He was bringing a woman of the same clan, who fled from him here and became a Christian of her own free will(B). She married a Portuguese widower by the name of Jorge Vieira, who is now going to live in India. This Moor went from this city to the court of the Shah at the time when Henrique de Macedo was there. The Governor of India sent him there as ambassador to the Shah, who received him worthily. As soon as this Moor arrived, he remonstrated strongly with the Shah about how the Portuguese had forced his wife to become a Christian in Ormuz, robbed her and committed other worse indignities against her provoking him to great anger.(C) The dignitaries of the kingdom told the ambassador, by way of advice, that he should write immediately to the captain of Ormuz to have this woman sent, because otherwise the Shah would not allow him to come. Henrique de Macedo conveyed all of this to Dom Alvaro de Noronha, the captain of Ormuz, through a Portuguese (A) Zeid, a nephew of the Lord Hussein, who was a nephew of Mahommed (cf. Lammens, L’Islam 170). (B) Cf doc 26, 22. (C) Cf doc 21. 1.
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