_ 193 _ wanted thereby to deprive them, against their will, of the religion that they practiced. According to what I was told, a lot of people had left the city on account of this(A), and the whole population was in turmoil and the whole country in revolt. After I had been promoted to captain(B), the King,(C) sent me a request, a copy of which I hereby send Your Highness and, following the advice of the gentlemen and nobles who happened to be here(D) I also include a copy of the answer that I gave. As you will see in my reply, it seemed right to them, and to me as well, to refer this case to Your Highness(E) I did not think it proper to approve this matter without Your Highness’s knowledge and orders as to what was in your interests in this affair. Although it did not seem right to me for it to be closed against so much opposition from the Moors, I did not consider that a reason for reopening it, or for doing anything in this matter without Your Highness’s (A) See what Barzeu writes about this, doc. 26, 19. (B) On 20th June 1550 the fortress in Lima was handed over to them, as D. Alvaro relates in his letter,. (C) King of Ormuz. (D) It appears that both the original and the copy have perished. (E) Cf. doc. 27, 2.
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