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the count admiral began to employ himself 



with the things that he had to send out, and the first was to 

 dispatch the galleon of supplies for Ceilao 1 , and in it Dom 

 Pedro Manoel, brother of the Conde da Atalaya, first cousin 

 of the count himself, as captain of Columbo 2 , Thome de Sousa 

 d'Arronches, who held that post, having completed his time 3 , 

 which left at the beginning of October [1598]. ...... 



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And because a little before there had arrived 4 



from Ceilao Andre Pereira Coutinho, son of Jorge Pereira 

 Coutinho 5 , former captain of Chaul, who went and reported 



1 Of, supra, p. 421, note 2 . 



2 He did not hold the position for long (see infra, XII. iv. xiii. 

 p. 441). 



3 See supra, p. 280, note 2 , p. 406. As we have seen, Thome de Sousa 

 had held the post of captain-major of the Ceylon coast for eight years 

 or more until 1595, when he succeeded Pedro Homem Pereira as captain 

 of Columbo. On 7 March 1595 there was issued in Lisbon an alvard, 

 in which the king said {A. P.-O. v. 1411-2) that in respect of Thome de 

 Sousa d' Arronches, fidalgo of his household, having served him in India 

 twenty and odd years, as soldier, 1 captain, and captain-major, and 

 continuing to serve in the said parts, he made him the grant, in place 

 of the 250 parddos of allowance that were given him by the governor 

 Manoel de Sousa Coutinho, of a village in the said parts of the same 

 value. Accordingly, on 15 February 1601 the viceroy Aires de Saldanha 

 issued at Goa a provision in which he permitted Thom6 de Sousa to 

 draw the said allowance of 250 parddos from " the rent of the villages 

 of Talaulim and Morombim in the island of this city of Goa, which are 

 now vacant." I have mentioned above (p. 406, note 4 ), certain charges 

 brought against Thome de Sousa by Dharmapala shortly before his 

 death, among them misappropriation of rents of lands. The first docu- 

 ment pdnted in A. P.-O. vi. is an order by the viceroy, dated 13 

 February 1601, for the resumption on behalf of the king of the rents 

 of certain villages leased by Dharmapala, among the lessees being 

 " Thome de Sousa d'Arronches, to whom is leased the village Bocala- 

 gama, which is in Piligaocorla " {i.e., Bokalagama in Hapitigam 

 korale). For further facts relating to this man see infra, p. 433, note \ 



i At Cochin. 



5 See supra, p. 149. 



