_ 122 _ the Dominican fathers and brothers, and these are very contradictory to those that are being drawn up now, which are drawn up with fear, and men are risking their souls in hell through fear. Item: Sir, we remind you to give the fortress to mature men who will be feared by the enemy and who will govern them well. Item: Sir, two Turkish foists have been sailing along this coast for the past two summers and have rided it anything being done about it through indifference. Such is our cowardice that people are afraid and so foists are given to boys to command. Item: Sir, we ask for mercy, mercy, mercy. Help us Lord, help us, lord, for we are sinking, and if our state falls it will never rise again. By the death and passion of Our Lord, let us not perish, for if we are lost, many innocents in this land will be lost, for there are many of them. Item: Sir, this letter is not signed because we do not dare ask it, so that it does not become known that we are writing to Your Highness. Item: Sir, we ask that this letter be torn up and that no one sees it except Your Highness, because they will kill us.
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