_ 206 _ I am not informing Your Lordship about the names of the wheat traders, because it would mean lengthy reading. I only mention: Mira Beraz who had 13 bars; they were all taken from him; Rais Rocadim who had 12 bars; he ordered the Guazil to register 11, as well as 160 quães. This is still not taking into account the eighteen, but it would mean taking everything from him and at most represent fifty/fifty; and Francisco Lopes, the factor had 20 bars, all of which were taken from him. I recorded them in the register because they are part of the Portuguese calculations. I do not need to have recourse to the Moors to decide on the settlement, because they do not want to. Until Your Lordship rectifies this with your own writ, it will go on like this. I am so disliked in this land that they want to fire their shot guns at me. This is since Sebastião Lopes Lobato ceased being factor and [the time of] Diogo Botelho Calado, who also served his post most honourably. He demanded only what complied with the service of our Lord, the King. I never had to ask them to do it since they carried it out fully. Rais Sharaf’s desire to substitute for eighteen arose from what I am going to tell Your Lordship now. At the time that Rais Rocadim was Guazil, it was the custom for the terradas bringing supplies from Qais not to pay duties.
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