There seems to be little doubt that Azurara wrote some sort of a Chronicle of this King which has not been preserved. The Chronicle we possess goes under the name of Ruy de Pina, but, according to Goes, it was begun by Fernão Lopes, continued by Azurara, and only finished by Pina.[95] Barros is more explicit, for he not only states that Azurara compiled the Chronicle in question, but adds that it was appropriated by Ruy de Pina, who succeeded him in the post of Chronista Mór.[96] Azurara himself does not help us much to a solution of the problem. In the _Chronica de Guiné_ he refers twice to it somewhat vaguely, but in another place mentions it quite clearly as his own work, though in the future tense.[97] Again, in the _Chronica de Ceuta_ there is a similar reference to it, also in the future tense.[98] Unsatisfactory as this is, we must perforce be content with it in default of any better information. It seems most unlikely that Affonso V would have employed the Chronicler on the lives of great nobles like Pedro and Duarte de Menezes, who, after all, were but private persons, without providing, in some way, for a history of his father to be written. All we can say is, that Azurara probably collected the material and possibly made a first draft--although it is noticeable that he nowhere speaks of the Chronicle as finished, but always as something that is to be done--then came Ruy de Pina and put it into shape, for the style is certainly his, and, while more smooth, is far less characteristic than the quaint rhetorical sentences of Azurara. [Footnote 95: _Chronica de D. Manoel_, quarta parte, ch. 38.] [Footnote 96: _Asia_, Dec. 1, liv. ii, ch. 2.] [Footnote 97: _Chronica de Guiné_, chs. 1, 5, and 68.] [Footnote 98: _Chronica de Ceuta_, ch. 21, and cf. _Chronica de D. Duarte de Menezes_, ch. 24.] (_g_) A CHRONICLE OF KING AFFONSO V.