_ 234 _ in it. Every day I your servant go to the house of our lord the King and to that of the Queen, and I always ask for money. On Monday, the first day of the week, the sixteenth of July, I was in the Queen's presence when she was eating, and as she finished, I spoke to her about the money. At once, and at that hour, she sent for Fernão de Alvares and told him that it was the King's pleasure that the money of Rais Sharafa should be paid, and that it should be given to a servant of his. Fernão de Alvares told her that he would do so at once, and that the King had already ordered that he was to give it; and the Queen said again that his servant would request it for you. I your servant went with Fernão de Alvares to his house, and he told me to come the next day, which was Tuesday, and he would bring the writ. The next day I went to fetch it from him. As soon as he saw me he told me that he would pay me as he had the money, and that he would give a first payment of four hundred tandis and after that he would pay one hundred and fifty tandis each month. So you may rest your mind about this money, for we have already dealt with it. In a few days I hope to have it to hand. Sir, I inform you that Mahmud Yusuf came here for forty tandis you ordered me to give him, which is the amount due on his house, which I paid him at once. I also
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