_ 501 _ should be pensioned off in Cochin and the command of the fortress be given to him for life. P. 311-2 In the city of Goa there is a artisan called Martim Gomes(A) who has served Your Highness in many fleets and he is always needed in the city because he is an able man in his job. He is already old and very poor. Your Highness will do me a great favour by granting him the reward of the post of surveyor of weights and measures in Goa for life. Dom João Mascarenhas tells me that he cannot stay in this fortress of Diu because of his great poverty. He persistently pleads with me to release him from it because, by reason of his straitened circumstances, he would in no way dare winter there. Although I should have been very displeased at this because this fortress was so greatly sought after, I could do nothing except grant him his request and I have appointed Dom Manoel de Lima(B) (A) The name of this Martim Gomes is found among the representatives of the working class of Goa in the lawsuit relating to the conversion of the King of Tanor (Documentação para a História das Missões, vol III, p. 67) and as a Brother of the Holy House of Mercy (ibid. pp. 364, 434). (B) This appointment, however, did not take effect due to the death of Dom Manuel da Silveira, who had been granted the captaincy of Ormuz when it was vacated by Luis Falcão, whose term was coming
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