_ 404 _ will send him to Portugal to deal with others. They want to persuade him that he will be nuncio, but that is not to be believed because others who are closer and of higher calibre and merit have pretensions to this office. I think that if good decisions are made about this reply, Your Highness has a wide field to order me to say everything there is to say in such a clear matter. With this, and with the difficulty that they will find in possession and collecting revenues, even if they have them, and with Your Highness not favouring them much, they will come to a far better decision about what they claim than they would make now, when they are very confident about the ease of possession and the size of the revenue so that, if Your Highness does what the situation merits, I think that Canobio will go on our side. Your Highness can and must this effect make much account of the fact that Frei Felipe de Mello has been elected abbot by the brethren of Pombeiro in the manner I will tell. The said Frei Felipe arrived in this court on the [blank) of this month with a Frei João Trigo, his companion, believing that it was to confirm his election, not knowing, when he left Portugal that he had such a hard adversary and so could not expect justice. I do not know whether it
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