_ 197 _ a Portuguese(A), a worthy man. This Moor went to make vigorous complaints about this to Shah Tahmasp, at the time that I told Your Highness Henrique de Macedo had arrived, telling him that she was forced to become a Christian here and that they took a lot of money from her, and that, according to what Henrique de Macedo says in his letter, Shah Tahmasp was greatly offended(B). He says that he sent him word without delay through his messengers that he would write me a letter for with through by one of the men who accompanied him, in which he would order me to be told that I should send this woman to him immediately, whether she was a Christian or not, and he also gave orders for it to be announced that there was no way he would come from there unless this woman was sent from here(C). Thus, it was that he commissioned a letter to be written to me at once, which reached me here in this city. One of his servants accompanied by the same Antonio Mendes de Oliveira brought it to me. In it he instructed them to tell me the same as they had told Henrique de Macedo, and the great harm that had been done in making this (A) With Jorge Viera (doc. 27, 1). (B) Cf. also doc. 21, 1. (C) Cf. doc 21, 1 4.
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