_ 87 _ to allow anyone to hold his offices against his will. Since Your Lordship is so full of justice, and the King deserves this for being devoted to you, we shall all be very grateful if you will satisfy him. Also, there are many writs from our Lord the King in which he decrees that no one should receive favours or offices from the King of Ormuz, under severe penalties. Aleixo Carvalho, to whom I gave the post of clerk to the customs weighing house, tried to interfere in matters that had nothing to do with the post I gave him, and Simão Botelho, Chief Treasury Officer, left him a standing order that this was the concern of the Guazil alone, which I gave him. It is a very small thing, but I gave it to him on condition that he served faithfully, and if he did otherwise he would lose it at once. I found him to have made many errors, especially concerning the terradas that came from Basra and Rishahr and other ports with provisions, viz. four terradas arrived together from Basra, one carrying one hundred and twenty bares he put as thirty and one which brought sixty he put as twelve, and the others similarly. I went to the captain and told him this, and he answered that he would see to it himself. I tell Your Lordship these matters because our Lord the King and also Your Lordship, ordered and
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