Now, as the great Afonso Dalboquerque had received information that there was in the fortress of Monejão, as captain, one of the brothers of Reys Hamed, and also in all the other villages and fleets his adherents and his captains were distributed; and being desirous, as he was, of rooting up all that man's seed out of the kingdom, he sent word to the king, through the secretary, to order every one of those people to quit the country immediately, and if they would not go away of their own free will, then he (the king) must send those who would put them out by force; and as for all the captains and adherents of Reys Hamed, who were at present engaged in a fleet against the Nautaques, and scattered up and down throughout the towns and villages of the kingdom, he must order them to be forthwith discharged and cast out of the country.

The king replied that he would send out thither his Muluás, or religious men, and if these could not prevail upon the persons objected to that they should quit the kingdom, then he would do as Afonso Dalboquerque desired, and he would also take care for the future to have no dealings with them.