_ 408 _ I told him the trickery that went on about the revenue and the difficulty of collecting it, and his obligation to carry out what his uncle had promised. I said that he should seek me out regarding what I had said about keeping his uncle's word, but he’d took no notice. They will look for some sort of ambiguity with which they think they will save themselves. They are in a great hurry to amass benefices and money, and try everything with that object, and treat many as they have treated me. So many people are complaining, some because they are asked for what they have and others because they refuse them what they promised. I think that I will have trouble whenever there is a vacancy in Portugal, because anything to which His Holiness has a claim, he will try to get for his nephews, and from those which he must acknowledge are in Your Highness's presentation he will want allowances. That is what he is ordering the nuncio to ask for in the vacant bishoprics in Spain. The Pope told a very reliable person that an excellent appointment would be made at Pombeiro. I think this must be Pero de Sousa, at the intercession of some of his intimates, and all the trouble this monastery has given me must arise from his greed. In the matter of sending a nuncio to Portugal, I think that they will wait to see what happens about Pombeiro,
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