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trinta dias se apresentara ante o juiz do fey to pera se fazer execucao da 

 sentence e por quanto elle pagou os ditos trezentos reis per as despezas 

 da Relacao a mateus Rodrigues Recebedor que lie do dinheiro pera as 

 ditas despezas apelicado segundo dello fuy certo per hum seu asinado 

 e per outro de paullo correa que os sobre elle carregou em Receita 

 por seu pay balltesar de freytas escrivao do dito carrego vos mando 

 que comprindo elle o que dito lie dairy em dyante o naoprendaes nem 

 mars dels prender nem lhe f acaes nem consentaes fazer mall nem outro 

 allgum desaguisado quanto lie por Rezao do contendo em sua piticao e 

 esta minha carta declarado por que minha merce e vontade he de lhe 

 asi perdoar pello modo que dito he o que asi compri e ali nao facaes 

 dada nesta cidade de lisboa aos onze dias do mes dagosto Ell Rei Noso 

 Senhor o mandou pello doutor Simao gongalves Cardoso e pello lecen- 

 seado francisco dias do amarall fidallgo de sua casa e chancellor das 

 ordens e mestrados de Noso Senhor Jesus-Christo Santiago e Aviys 

 ambos de seu conselho e seus desembargadores do paco e piticao Anto- 

 nio pinheiro a fez anno do nacimento de Noso Senhor Jesus-Christo 



de mil quinhentos e sessenta e um luis fellgueira a fez escrever. 



(Chanceilaria de D. Sebastiao. L°. 4 de Legistimac^oes a folha 363,) 

 Translation. 



Dom Sebastiao, &c. — To all the magistrates, ouvidors, judges, -and 

 justices of my realms and dominions to whom this my letter of pardon 

 shall be shown and the knowledge thereof in due form. Greeting, I 

 do you to wit, that Symao Pinhao, minor son of Fernao Pinhao, a man 

 who lives by his fortune, a resident of the village of Punhete, sent to 

 inform me by his petition that he had been imprisoned in the jail of 

 the said village and accused by one Jorge Fernandes, a resident of the 

 said village, of having given him a sword-cut on the face, for which 

 cause he was condemned to five years' banishment in Africa with 

 proclamation in court ; and that before being released he escaped from 

 ' the said jail by the door thereof, without breaking iron or wood, or 

 breaching wall, or roof, or door ; and as he went in hiding through fear 

 of being captured, he therefore begged me to grant him the favour of 

 pardoning him for his escape from the said jail. And having seen what he, 

 the suppliant, sent thus to tell and beg me, if it is so as he says, and there 

 is nothing besides, and desiring to grant him the favour, having seen 

 a Praz-me* signed by the doctor Simao Goncalves Cardoso of my council 

 and my judge of the King's court and of petitions, to whom I have 

 given authority so to do, I think right and it is my pleasure to pardon 

 him and acquit him of the fault that he has committed in escaping 

 from the jail at Punhete, of which he makes mention in his petition in 

 the manner that is stated therein, and he shall pay three hundred reis 

 for the expenses of the Supreme Court, and within thirty days from 

 the giving of this he shall present himself before the judge of the case 



* Document! commencing with the words "It is my pleasure."— D.W.F. 



