_ 287 _ Item: From the same ditch to the houses that belonged to Reis Salsadin, which are along the seashore on the other bank at a place called the foreign quarter of Reis Sharif, next to the houses that belonged to said Reis Sharif, where the King is at present, it is forty-eight braças. Included in this measurement are some straw houses where the cooper is now living. He was only given this plot for him to repair the barrels, but the said plot and houses belong to Our Lord the King, and the cooper alone and no one else can stone houses on it. Item: The measurements of this courtyard are already wrong, because other wall have already been built outside the fortress and the ditch widened. Because of this they later demolished other houses. Even now the Viceroy Dom Pero is ordering others to be knocked down and the courtyard enlarged, as this is necessary for the defence of the fortress. Fol. 82 Records of the annual expenses that our lord the king pays in this fortress. Item: To the captain of the fortress, two thousand xerafins, which are worth six hundred thousand reals. ……………………………………………………..………..600,000 reals
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