_ 46 _ selected in council, with me being relieved of the freedom to give them to whoever I wished, because I do nothing in this land for my won profit or that of my relatives and friends, but only to serve. So I said that in Cochin, Chaul and Diu I gave [….] one of his ships in this way and I was told that a meeting was to be held the following day and I would be given an answer. The next day, the four men came to me saying that they would not accept the carracks and they told me I should let all of them sail just like they used to . To support this request they presented a letter stating that Your Highness wrote to the Viceroy ordering him to allow all the carracks of shareholders to sail, even if it proved harmful to Your Highness Treasury and for that reason I said I would hand over that letter. They said that the Chief Financial Officer had shown this letter to many people, but he never showed it to me, nor ever when he thought it right that I should sell the carracks but only afterwards when he saw me criticizing him for the licenses he had granted. Despite all this he never mentioned such a letter to me. They do not see the ingratitude and bad manners of the town, but only the favours of these and other noblemen
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTg0NzAy