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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON.) [VOL. XVI. 



This Fernao Pin Mo was a nephew of Simao Pinhao, as we 

 learn from the next document, which runs as follows : — 



Dom Fillipe, etc., Facjo saber aos q esta carta virem que avedo resp t0 

 aos servissos que Simao Pinhao ja fallecido me fez nas partes da India 

 por espac,o de dezanove annos te ode seis centos e nove e em parti- 

 cular na conquista de Ceillao servindo de soldado capitao e capitad 

 mor pelleijando per muytos vezes com os emigos e ser f erido delles e 

 a emforma^ao q tive de seus servissos e procedim tos na guerra e 

 pertencerem a fernao pinhao seu sobrinho cavalr . fidalgo de minha 

 caza estante na India polios deyxar em testam t0 . nomeando nelle 

 juntam te . a mersse da capitania da fortaleza de momba9a de quelle 

 tinha f eito mersse per tempo de tres annos na vagante dos providos 

 antes de sete de dezembro do anno de seis centos e dez comlc^a p a . poder 

 testar della no mesmo tempo de que ainda nao tinha tirado ey por bem 

 e me praz de fazer m e . ao dito ferna5 pinhao da capitania da dita 

 fortalleza de monbaca em a costa de Melinde pera aservir pello mesmo 

 tenpo de tres annos na vagante dos providos antes dos ditos sette de 

 dezembro do anno de mil e seis centos e dez em q della era f eito m e . ao 

 dito sen tio posto que o dito fernao pinhao seia provido per seus 

 servissos da capitania da fortaleza da gale. — Lisboa 12 de marco de 

 1619* 



Translation. 



Dom Fillipe, &c. I make known to those who shall see this letter 

 that having respect to the services that Simao Pinhao, nowf deceased, 

 did me in the parts of India during the space of nineteen years up to 

 that of 1609, and in particular in the conquest of Ceillao, serving as 

 soldier, captain, and captain-major, fighting on many occasions with 

 the enemies and being wounded by them, and the information that I 

 had of his services and proceedings in the war, and of their pertaining 

 to Fernao Pinhao, his nephew, knight fidalgo of my household, being 

 in India, having been left to him by testament, nominating him also 

 therein to the grant of the captaincy of the fort of Mombasa which I 

 had granted for a period of three years on the vacation of the 

 grantees prior to the 7th of December of the year 1610, with liberty 

 to be able to bequeath it during the same period, of which he had not 

 yet been deprived, I think well and it is my pleasure to grant to the 

 said Fernao Pinhao the captaincy of the said fort of Mornbaca on the 

 coast of Melinde, to serve therein for the same period of three years 

 on the vacation of the grantees prior to the said 7th of December of 

 the year 1610 in which the grant of it was made to his said uncle, 

 albeit the said Fernao Pinhao has been provided for his services with 

 the captaincy of the fort of Gale.— Lisbon, the 12th of March, 1619. 



* Chancellaria de Filippe II., vol. 44, fol. 51, v. 

 f Or " lately," or " some time ago."— D. W. F. 



