Note 20 — VII DOM JOÃO DE CASTRO
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In a letter to King João III from India he recalls all his services since the age of eighteen and says: “For the love of God and in reward for these services I beg your Highness to allow me to return to Portugal to live with my wife and children and end the few troubled days that remain to me in the Serra de Cintra,” and in 1540 he writes to Prince Luis that only the arrival of a Turkish fleet in India will prevent him from returning to Portugal.