_ 403 _ that Canobio will send them, which he can write if he is allowed to try it, how readily those tenants hand over their profits, and the ease with which the relatives of the late abbot collected them. I suspect that the path that these gentlemen are now taking in this affair must be on the advice either of a Portuguese or of a person who thinks he knows Portugal. The fact that they are avoiding me suggests that he is Portuguese and does not know very much, and they put their trust in the fear aroused in this country by a brief, even one so unjust and unreasonable. When Your Highness has seen what Canobio brings, you can and must reply that you are astounded at the message being so different from what I have written on this matter, in which I relate the case as it happens, and are also surprised that this change in the grant has not been communicated here to me, and that you will order that I be written to, and that you will reply to His Holiness through me. If Canobio wants to come with this, that is well, and if he wants to wait for a message, let him do as he likes. I think he will wait, because Borromeo has given a brother of Canobio to understand that, as consolation for going only on such inferior business as that of this possession, they
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