_ 202 _ told, a great many people left the city on account of this. Moreover, the entire population was in an uproar and the whole of the country in revolt. After I had been promoted captain, the king sent me a formal petition, a copy of which is this that I am sending to Your Highness in Portugal. also sending a copy of the reply that I wrote to him. This contained the opinion of the nobles and gentlemen, who were out here, which was that it seemed proper both to them and to me, to refer this case to Your Majesty, as you will see in my reply. I did not consider it appropriate to attend to this matter and to order what was in your interests, without Your Highness’s knowledge. Although, in my opinion, it did not seem right to close it, with so much opposition from the Moors, neither did it seem appropriate to give orders for it to be opened or to do anything about it, without Instructions from Your Highness. These are matters connected with Our Lord, and the fact that it is closed is not a bad thing in this city, since it belongs to Your Highness(A), So, for these two reasons it seems proper for it to be the way it is now. (A) This was the main argument invoked it concerned a city belonging to the king of Portugal and consequently subject to the jurisdiction of the official religion.
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