_ 104 _ kind of treason. After this I sent it to the Crown Judge and ordered that the prisoners who had taken refuge in the church should be left there, and those who had not should be treated according to the law, and I went back upstairs. The vicar told so many stories to the Crown Judge that he kept him there until the sun had set, and Henrique Velho, who had been captured in the terrada of pepper, fled from the church and escaped, or the vicar let him escape. He is a young man of little wisdom, and fond of assemblies and very troublesome. The casados of this city were united against him because of a sermon he gave in which he said that their wives were very brown, and because of this they did not come to church. The next day, which was Sunday, he preached a sermon in which he attacked me very openly, and the least he said was that I lied. These are the qualities of his youth; but Ormuz requires another kind of vicar, more responsible, and Your Lordship will do me a favour if you send him somewhere else away from here. For the city of Ormuz is very large and populous and has many dealings with the people of the country about making Christians here, and other things. He took a kinsman of one of my servants, an important and honoured Mir, and carried him off to his house and made him a Christian.
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