_ 65 _ given [in pencil] jueyrodas and thereby there is a great loss, let Your Highness provide against this, because it is well known that there is a great loss in this and it defames it greatly because all are envious. Friar Jorge Vieyra Provost of the Order of Sam Jeasu de Lapram wrote to the Grand Master and to myself strongly as to Your Highness consenting that Friar Aves de Figeiredo should act as he does, of which the Grand Master and the whole Convent are astonished that after the order rendering such a good and signal service to Your Highness, in which service the said Friar Jorge merited that Your Highness should do him some great favours, and that there should be such an aggrievance made of according him. I assure Your Highness that he is one of the most proper gentlemen of the Kingdom to whom to entrust him with the charge of some galley in the Indies, because when I was twice Captain of our galleys he was always the master of one and in Jaçu he behaved marvelously, therefore do I supplicate Your Highness to order that he be given your order and not permit that a mean fellow without merits to boast of, or likely to win them, should demolish the goods of Sam Goam; not many days hence I shall send a regular messenger by whom I shall write more certain and more detailed accounts and for this reason do I make an end
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