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for the execution of the sentence. And for as much as he paid the said 

 three hundred reis for the expenses of the Supreme Court to Mateus 

 Rodrigues, the authorized receiver of the money appropriated for the 

 said expenses, I was certified thereof by a document signed by him, and 

 by another from Paullo Correa, who entered them against him in the 

 ledger for his father Baltesar de Freytas, scrivener of the said charge. 

 I command you that if he fulfils what has been said from henceforth 

 you do not seize him nor order him to be seized, nor do him or cause to 

 be done to him any harm or any other wrong whatever by reason of the 

 matter set forth in his petition and in this my letter; because my favour 

 and will is to thus pardon him in the manner that has been said : which 

 comply with and do not otherwise. — Given in this city of Lisbon on 

 the Eleventh day of the month of August. Our Lord the King com- 

 manded it by the doctor Simao G-oncalves Cardoso and by the licentiate 

 Francisco Dias do Amaral, noble of his household and chancellor of the 

 orders and masterships of our Lord Jesus Christ, St. James, and Avis, 

 both of his council and his judges of the King's court and petitions. 

 Antonio Pinheiro made it in the year of the birth of our Lord Jesus 

 Christ, One thousand Five hundred and Seventy-one. — Luis Fellgueira 

 caused it to be written. 



That the Simao Pinhao of the above proclamation is iden- 

 tical with the hero of the B-atnapura inscription is, I think, 

 extremely probable ; and I have no doubt that his father 

 was glad to ship him on 2 to India to exercise his pugnacity 

 in a direction that would not entail further demands on 

 the paternal income. When he sailed for the East I cannot 

 say ; but after the lapse of a quarter of a century we again 

 hear of him breaking out of prison ! In a royal letter to the 

 Viceroy of India, dated Lisbon, March 10, 1598, occurs the 

 following* : — 



The licentiate Jusse Paes, judge of cases, wrote me by the ships of 



the past year He says that to the office of judge of cases to 



which the viceroyf appointed him on coming from Malaca appertains 

 the trial of the culprits concerned in the sack of the ship of the Melique 

 which went ashore on the coast at Bagaim, and that one Simao PinhaS 

 condemned in a sum of money towards my revenue escaped from the 

 jail to this kingdom, upon which all diligence was used here to appre- 

 hend him ; and I was informed that he had not embarked, and that he 

 had remained in Cochim, wherefore it is needful to exercise diligence 

 with regard to him, if it has not already been done. 



* I translate from the original as printed in the Arch. Port. Or., fasc. 3, 

 No. 325.—D. W. F. f Mathias de Albuquerque, 1591-1597.— D. W. F. 



