_ 64 _ Highness ordered them to, accompanied him, will give you ample account of them. With reference to Your Highness’s having ordered Manuel de Macedo to effect certain captures here. I am very aggrieved at your sending him to this fortress, empowering him to undertake investigations and at my having to do what he asked of me and ordered me to do. I am also pained at your not having reminded him that you had granted me the honours of this captaincy, where I have served you very well on more than one occasion during the five or six years that I have been here. I believe that Your Highness will have already learnt how I have served you through other people who have left this year. It would have better, my Lord, not to have given this fortress to me when I requested it from Your Highness because it is given to others for their honour and I believe that Your Highness gave it to me in order to dishonour me, since Manuel de Macedo was to come and give orders here. I was lucky when the Governor was here because his authority over me was not known publicly. May Your Highness be aware that as I have always served you and never done you any disservice, so I also served you here when it mattered so little. I want to boast to Your Highness
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