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This document is a manuscript administrative memorandum, dated 3 February 1656 in Lisbon, concerning a petition submitted to the Portuguese Crown regarding Dom Sebastião Lobo, former governor of Maranhão. The text records the intervention of an unnamed informant, who advises that a grievance brought by an aggrieved party through a procurator should be referred to Doctor Diogo Mancado Fernandes Cosme for further information. The petitioner had requested that accounts taken from the Núncio relating to Dom Sebastião Lobo’s administration of his Brotherhood during his governorship be produced, and that he be heard on them. The memorandum notes that the petitioner claimed all papers and documents compiled against Dom Sebastião Lobo, previously removed from Doctor Diogo Mancado Fernandes Cosme, had been taken, and that dismissal of the petition would prevent him from providing information. The document bears the archival stamp of the Arquivo Histórico Colonial do Brasil and the mark of the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, and is signed by Comendador Dom António Camargo. This item offers researchers evidence of mid-seventeenth-century colonial administrative procedure, petitioning practices, and the mechanisms of accountability applied to former governors of the State of Maranhão.
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This 17th-century Portuguese colonial document, dated November–December 1656 and originating from the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (AHU), comprises a series of administrative communications concerning the political, military, and economic situation in Macau during a period of heightened regional instability. The text includes reports from Manoel Martim Riemem, Governor of the State of India, and references to the Captain-Major of Macau, detailing concerns over Dutch naval activity, disruptions to maritime routes—including the Strait of Sunda—and the precarious financial and defensive state of the settlement. Key figures mentioned include João Rodrigues de Sá, Captain of the Fleet, and Eldréj de l’Artella, Governor of the Philippine Islands, who expressed strategic interest in Macau’s vulnerability. The correspondence addresses urgent measures such as troop reinforcement, provisioning of fortifications, remittance of funds (notably ten thousand xerafins or cruzados), and proposals for leadership succession within the Fidalgo fleet, including the recommended appointment of Drey VIAR de Lucellad. The document also records internal disciplinary matters, such as the conduct of Captain Sebastião Pereira, and broader diplomatic and commercial relations with Canton. Despite some marginal annotations containing anachronistic or illegible elements—such as the suspect date “1798” and uncertain terms like “prataxo” or “farenças”—the core content aligns with known historical contexts of Portuguese Asia in 1656. However, several passages are flagged as potentially unreliable due to orthographic anomalies, transcriptional errors, or suspected hallucination, necessitating cautious scholarly interpretation and further verification against original manuscripts in the AHU collection.