Note 170 — II 1325-1521
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Usually he does this without naming the offender, but he refutes the razões of Martim Afonso de Mello, a person well known at the Court of King João I and author of a technical book on the art of war, Da Guerra (see Zurara, Cr. D. Joam, cap. 99). Mello refused the governorship of captured Ceuta in 1415. A work on a similar subject, Tratado da Milicia, is ascribed to Zurara’s friend and patron. King Afonso V (Barbosa Machado, i. 19).