_ 195 _ kingdom. This might well pass over, but I fear that Shah Tahmasp(A) and the neighbouring lords may take great offence at this, and the friendship that Your Highness enjoys with Shah Tahmasp and with them, may perhaps be broken here. Some of them have already written to me about this matter but not yet Shah Tahmasp. I answered them that Your Highness would send a reply and that you would do everything that was just(B) in this matter. They have not written to me again. Your Highness will see the passage I wrote in this letter about Shah Tahmasp, and you will see what he did and wrote to me about another matter just like this one, and then Your Highness will order in everything what you consider best. However, if they should write about this subject and Your Highness thinks it a good idea to send instructions to unseal their alcoran, you should not write to them directly but to me or the captain who is here, because the situation here may be such that it is more in your interests for you not, to send it and better for them not to know that Your Highness is doing so. 2. Item. Your Highness will already know through last year’s letters from the Governor Jorge Cabral, how he had (A) Shah Tahmasp, Emperor of Persia. (B) It appears this letter was lost.
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