_ 194 _ instructions from there (Portugal),(A) This is Our Lord’s business, and for the minaret to be sealed off does not seem a bad idea in this city, since it belongs to Your Highness. Thus, when these two matters are considered in themselves, it seems preferable that they should remain just as they are. Your Highness should, moreover, grant rewards, honours and posts to the Moors living here in this city, where this issue of the alcoran is a great scandal and insult, and give orders for your captains and governors to dispense these favours to them. So this is what is happening and how things are now. My intention in my reply was to placate them [4r] with the very words I used to answer them so that they would not despair completely, and to tell them that I would write to Your Highness and that you would determine what was just in this matter, because while the problem was on its way to Your Highness and back, time itself would heal it. They are writing to Your Highness and they also told me that they had to do so. Your Highness will now see what seems to you of most advantage to Our Lord and to you, and this will be done with the King of Ormuz and with the worthy people of this (A) Cf. what. Barzeu has written about the matter, doc. 26, 20.
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