_ 128 _ any occasion and send Fidalgo’s men of counsel because all come for gain, saving Francisco Bareto former Captain or Badaym. Senhor, here they have drawn up instruments respecting the dockyards and the Arsenal, and therefore if Your Highness orders others to be drawn up for the Dominican or Francisco Farto, it will (?) go very much contrary to those that are drawn up now, which are done so under fear, and the men cast souls into hell through fear. Senhor, we beg to remind you to assign the fortresses to rife men and such as are held in fear by the enemies, and who shall govern well their Fortresses. Senhor, two foists of the Turks are scouring the Coast these two summers, and have sacked it without anything having been done to them, all through the carelessness and our irdania (?) is such that we are in fear of them and this is caused by at times ordering feasts and peace. Senhor, we beg for Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. Help us Senhor. Help us Senhor, for we are sinking and if we fall never will our Estate ever raise it head, for the love of the Death and Passion of Our Lord who tries (?) us let us not be lost, for if we are lost, there will be lost many innocent ones here in this land, which are many. Senhor, this letter will not go stamped for we dare not
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