_ 198 _ woman a Christian, he said she should be sent to him immediately, [5r] and if not, that he would order his captains, who were in the lands bordering on Ormuz to wage ruthless war against me. However, he would not command them to do so straight away, out of consideration for the ambassador who was there but, that if this woman was not sent to him, he would at once order them against me, which in fact he did. Henrique de Macedo tells me in his letter, that he approved his orders for this, to the captains that I mention here. After noting the opinions of the people who were here, with whom it seemed to me I ought to resolve this problem, I thought it best for the sake of the ambassador who was there and so that this business would not to be ruined, which would have been a great loss to this country to answer him that this woman was no longer here, as I had, in fact, ordered her to leave this city(A) without delay, since she had become a Christian through her own wish and not in the manner that her husband had claimed. I also recalled to him the cordial relations that Your Highness had with him and the ambassadors you had sent there to him, and so, for this reason as well as others I gave (A) She was sent to India (cf. doc. 27, 1).
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