_ 531 _ The captain also made a fuss(A). The people were even more indignant when Master Gaspar was ordered to come to Goa,(B) because they did not understand what that meant. After arriving in Goa, I spent almost a year or more there(C). When Father Francisco Rodrigues told me to return to Ormuz, as I was aware that the King had not paid the trustees for the houses, and that they were complaining (although they were not going to receive any benefit from this complaint unless they agreed with the King) I had authorization from the Governor Francisco Barreto for the Controller of Finances to pay them eight hundred cruzados immediately. On arriving in Ormuz, the King’s factor immediately vacated the houses for me and left them in my control. I summoned the trustees and told them that they should be paid for the houses because, although I was under no obligation to do so, to help them I had brought them an authorization from His Lordship the Governor, and that if they wanted it they should take it and that if not I would do even more, I would collect it and give it to them. I do not (A) Perhaps D. Antonio de Noronha. He became Governor of Ormuz for a second time in May 1557. (B) As in fact he did. (C) Therefore, from the end of 1555 to the end of 1556 or even up to the beginning of 1557.
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