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The above royal order, it will be seen, refers to the grant 

 made to Simao Pinao, as a reward for his military services, 

 of the villages of Kuttapitiya and Opanake, of which the 

 royal letter of 17th March 1653, quoted in my Paper, -also 

 speaks. As from this latter we learn that Joanna de 

 Mendonca was the last of the " three lives " for which the 

 grant was made, and as Simao Pinhao was the first, I think 

 the second must have been Fernao Pinhao, and that " Joao " 

 in the above document is a copyist's blunder : at any rate, 

 I have found no other reference to a Joao Pinhao. 



6. Mr. J oseph read the following Paper : — 



