Nuno Álvares Pereira, the Constable of Portugal, was, as we have said, the king's right-hand man in the defence of the realm. When he learned of the truce you have heard about, confirmed as it was by very strict articles and put in place for a given period of time, along with safeguards for the sons of such men who were sent from Castile as hostages, he did not consider this to be a truce, for a truce is a guarantee given to people while not constituting the end of any actual discord. Rather, this was an agreeable first step towards peace, so that another, more durable may follow. It was not just he, but any prudent man, who firmly held this opinion. As this was the count's opinion, as soon as the truce was proclaimed, he arranged that those who had continually been in his forces in his and the king's service in the recent conflicts should be rewarded with some of the lands and revenues with which the king had favoured him.

In the Alentejo he gave to Gonçalo Eanes de Abreu, Alter do Chão, with its castles and revenues; Evoramonte, with its revenue, he gave to his uncle, Martim Gonçalves do Carvalhal; to Lopo Gonçalves, he gave the revenues from the governorship of Estremoz, because he did not possess the castle, along with other revenues from that town; the revenue from Borba he gave to João Gonçalves da Ramada; Monsaraz to Rodrigo Álvares Pimentel; part of the revenues from Vidigueira, to a good squire called Afonso Esteves Perdigão; part of the revenues from Portel, with those from Vila de Frades, to his treasurer, Fernão Domingues; Vila Alva and Vila Ruiva, to Rodrigo Afonso de Coimbra; the revenues from Montemor-o-Novo to a squire dwelling there, called Lourenço Eanes Azeiteiro; the revenues from Almada, to Pedro Eanes Lobato; the ferry dues of Sacavém to his finance officer, João Afonso, who later became comptroller of the king's treasury; the royal estates of Alviela, to Estêvão Eanes Borboleta, who was later finance officer in Lisbon; the revenue from Porto de Mós and Rio Maior, to Pedro Afonso do Casal; Alvaiázere to Álvaro Pereira; Rabaçal, to Mem Rodrigues [de Vasconcelos]