Dom João by the Grace of God, King of Portugal and the Algarves ... Make Known to All Those who May See this My Decree, that Considering what Flynn and Braz, British Merchants Resident in the City of Coimbra, Have Represented to Me in Their Petition, Saying that Considerable Sums of Money Being Due to Them in the City of Leyria, They Sent Thither One of Their Clerks ... to Get Payment of the Said Debts Proceeding from the Sale of Some British Goods ... and Whilst the Said Clerk was Employed in Carrying Into Effect the Execution ... He was Taken Before the Magistrates of the District to be Put in the List of Soldados Pagos ... Notwithstanding that the Petitioners, as Subjects of Great Britain, are Exempt from All War Service ...