_ 193 _ 1504, he was accompanied by Pero de Mendonça, Lionel Coutinho, Tristão da Silva, Lopo Mendes de Vasconcelos, Lopo de Abreu, Filipe de Castro, Afonso Lopes da Costa, Pero Afonso de Aguiar, Vasco da Silveira, Vasco de Carvalho and Manuel Teles de Vasconcelos(A). To the names of the da Mina with the pleasure and consent of the city of Lisbon. We wrote to the city about this, and they sent to tell us that they were pleased. We must, however, make him a citizen of that city, and we wish that henceforth he should possess and enjoy all the honours, privileges, liberties and franchises which are possessed and enjoyed by its citizens and residents, although he does not live there and does not possess houses or other things which would make him a citizen (...). He will order a letter of citizenship of that city to be drawn up every year in the manner customary to its citizens and residents". (Document of grant transcribed in the confirmation of Dom Manuel, Evora, 15.IX.1497, in Chanc. Dom Manuel, 28, f.98a). Lopo Soares took up his duties in mid-September 1495 and exercised them until the end of June 1499 (cf. the manifest of 12.VII, 1499 published by Joao Martins da Silva Marques, Descobrimentos portugueses, III, Lisbon, 1971, on p. 521-522). (A) Castanheda, I/90, p. 191. The other chronicles gave this same list but do not agree on the true name of Manuel Teles. The BM Anonymous omits it (p. 116), while Barros (I/7-9p. 289) and Gois (I/96, p. 231) confuse him with Manuel Teles Barreto. Both of them. write that this captain lived at Cochin in December 1504 and did not return to Portugal that year (Barros, I/7-11, p. 295; Gois, I/99, p.242), then contradicted themselves in making him figure on the list of those who left for India in April 1506. This error is repeated by Luis de Figuereido Falcao, Livro em que se contem toda a fazenda e real patrimonio dos reinos de Portugal, India e ilhas adjacentes e outras particularidades, Lisbon, 1859, P. 140. The confusion was
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