_ 304 _ In the same year (1554) D. João III sent a letter to the Comendador Moore, D. Afonso de Lancaster, the Ambassador in Rome, in 1554, mentioning the ransom paid for the Portuguese prisoners:(28) Comendador-mor, nephew and friend etc. Your servant Monteiro brought me a letter from you in which you say that you have been talking to a young Genoese gun-founder, about whom you have written in the past and that he seems to you to be a good craftsman but asking too much, and that you wished to know how much it is customary to pay such craftsmen here so that you could arrange matters with him accordingly. Because we have such need of him in our arsenals, I should be pleased to give him something extra as long (28) Document no. and reference.
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