_ 80 _ other bulls, which they cannot do in extremis because of the Sixth Book, which begins Ad futuram rei memoriam which annuls the privileges of Coena Domini. For this reason, I did not wish to hurry to pronounce sentence without first writing to the Bishop about it so that he could decide, and proving to him at length how they should be excommunicated. The other affairs were about usury, which I always absolve with a cautionary fine. I have collected a large sum of money from these fines to do whatever the Bishop of Goa orders. The trade was being carried on between this country and India at the time of the siege of Diu, when all Christendom in India was at great risk of being lost; but God is the provider of all things. I found also here great cartels to corner markets, and many deceits to wrong one’s neighbour. The fourth sin I found in this country was enduring hatred, very difficult to eradicate, principally among the two hundred soldiers or so sent here by the governor, and others who were stationed here, because there are always seven or eight hundred men wintering here, and these gave me much trouble. The merchants were peaceful, but these came and upset everything. Every day there were challenges, insults, knifings, deaths, woundings; they seemed men with little fear of God. I made many church-door reconcili-
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