_ 203 _ Your Highness should grant favours and honours and allocate posts to the Moors who live here in this city. You should also order your captains and governors to treat them in the same way, seeing that this question of the Alcoran is a source of great offence and pain to them. That is what is going on and how things are at the moment. My intention in my reply was to placate the Moors [4] with the words I used and to tell then that I would report everything to Your Highness and that you would order what was just in this affair, so that they would not despair completely. And that during the time taken for the matter to reach Your Highness and come back, time itself would be the healer. They are in the process of writing to Your Highness and so they told me they were determined to do so. Your Highness will presently see what is most in the interests of Our Lord and yourself. And this will be done with the King of Ormuz and with the worthy people of this kingdom. This may quite well happen, but I am afraid that Shah Tahmasp(A), with these gentlemen from neighbouring lands, may take this as a great insult and the friendship Your Highness enjoys with Shah Tahmasp (A) This is a reference to the Shah or Sheikh of Persia: Shah Tahmasp.
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