181 - Concerning other reasons given by the arbitration judges to bring the kings to a good accord

Summary

If we leave aside the reasons given by one party as well as the other, since they would take so long that they should be dispensed with, the count and the bishop submitted others so as to bring the kings to a good accord and, to put it briefly, the reasons were as follows:

The Portuguese towns and castles held by the Castilian adversary and those men who had gone over to him should be returned to the King of Portugal. Further, he should be compensated for the amounts covering the sentences passed by the judges and for the punishments imposed on the prisoners, as well as for the expenses incurred in preserving Badajoz, as it had been taken in pledge for such matters. Insofar as the Portuguese who had gone over to Castile had given rise to the war and would do so in the future, although there might be peace or a truce between the kings, for that reason they believed that for God's service and to ensure that the situation was kept calm, it was fitting that they be expelled from Castile; otherwise, while those Portuguese remained there, they could see no way in which there could be friendship or trust between the kings, with one honouring the enemies of the other. Further, all prisoners taken in the first war as well as in the second, wherever they might be found, should be released and freed, and the two homebound naos from Genoa should also be returned to the King of Portugal.

The King of Portugal should return the town of Badajoz to the King of Castile, with the latter paying to the former the amounts covering the sentences and the punishments imposed on the prisoners, and what had been expended in keeping it. Furthermore, the Portuguese king should return the town of Tuy, together with other places in the kingdom of Castile that he had taken as well as the prisoners that were to be found in his own kingdom.

Likewise, payment should be made for all the damage, expenses, losses and wrongs that were caused in the seizure of any places, Badajoz as well as others, from either kingdom, so that the parties would be released from obligation to each other.