The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 133 _ Given in the city of Evora, on 14th March. Pero Fernandez did it in the year of the birth of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, 1545, I resolve and order that this letter be complied with. Any captain or official who seizes these items, anyone of them, from the King, will have to pay eight times a third of the value of the costs to whoever accuses him and two thirds to the orphanage which I am now ordering to be built in the city of Goa. He will also lose the salaries of whatever function or post he has.

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