Having left the issue of peace aside, they all spoke about a truce; and having spent days discussing it without being able to come to an agreement, it was deemed fitting for one of the ambassadors to go and inform the king his liege lord of all the things that had taken place until then. Although they had already made those things known in writing, there were other new matters to be pointed out. So, as the King of Castile had given his assent, Doctor Martim do Sém left for Portugal. Having told the King of Portugal all that had come to pass regarding this business in Castile, the king had the noblemen and counsellors of his realm summoned, and these assembled in the town of Santarém, where he was at the time. He gave the lords, knights and squires a written document listing the things that the Castilians requested, and another to the counsellors for each one of them to put forward a response as to what should be done on the matter in question.

Once the documents had been seen by everyone, the noblemen's response was: that the towns and prisoners should be handed over in exchange for other towns and prisoners and, in addition, the hostages should be given back to the Castilians. With regard to the pardon to be granted to the [renegade] Portuguese, since they did not want to agree to peace by any other means, they should all be pardoned and the property they had possessed by inheritance should be handed back to them but not that which had been granted to them by the crown. People who had held such property should purchase it back for a good and fairly assessed price. With regard to the dobras imposed on them as fines, the penalties to be paid for the prisoners and the other damages and losses, one thing should be cancelled by a similar thing; and if there were anything else due, it should not be deemed to be payable but rather discharged on both sides.

However, with respect to the reparation of 20 contos that they were demanding, the support of the galleys and the 1,000 lances, such matters were not to be heeded or even spoken of; with conditions such as these let them keep their own peace.