_ 207 _ It would appear that the Guazil cheated on the duties on these supplies, but, in truth, I do not know. Then, afterwards, under Rais Sharaf, a terrada came from Qais with wheat. The Moors’ clerks told Rais Sharaf that the terrada was from Dais and that it did not have to pay. Rais Sheriff replied that there was no wheat in Dais and that, although the terrada had come from Qais, which is an island, it had first gone to Ormuz and that the wheat was from Lar and that it had to pay, and he ordered it to pay. A few days later, another terrada came from Qais. It appears that Rais Sharaf was already informed about what happened to the wheat from Qais; he claimed that the terrada had come from Qais and that it did not have to pay. Based on what he had already said, I told him that there was no wheat in Qais and that the wheat was from Lar and that it had to pay. Then he ordered payment to be made. But when he said that there were no figures here, he decided on the figure eighteen. God knows who retains it. If it is the merchants, it is just as well, because the valuations carried out at sea are favourable to them in every way. Now I ask Your Lordship to attend to this as you see fit, because, as the old saying goes I cannot judge him by his riches but by his privileges, and many a mickle makes a muckel. If many goods come to this Customs House and
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