Volume 2

An English garner ... / [Rearranged and classified under the general editorial supervision of Mr. Thomas Seccombe].

Date:
1903-1904
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Credit: An English garner ... / [Rearranged and classified under the general editorial supervision of Mr. Thomas Seccombe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    such time as the new Viceroy, called Don Duarte de Meneses came out of Portugal; who, with the old Viceroy, assembled a Council at Cochin, where the Government was delivered unto him: where he used such means, that by fair words and entreaty, they erected their Custom House; and got the townsmen’s goodwill, but more by compulsion than otherwise. Which custom is a great profit to the King, by means of the traffic therein used ; for there the Portuguese ships do make themselves ready with their full lading, to sail from thence to Portugal. The same year [1584], in the month of September, there arrived in Goa, a Portuguese ship, called the Dom Jesus de Carania, that brought news of four ships more that were on the way, with a new Viceroy called Don Duarte de Meneses : which caused great joy throughout the city, all the bells being rung, as the manner is, when the first ship of every Fleet arriveth in Goa, out of Portugal. In that ship came certain canoniers [gunners'], Netherlanders ; that brought me letters out of Holland, which was no small comfort to me. Not long after, in the same month, there arrived another ship, called Boa Viagen [p. 38], wherein were many gentle- men, and Knights of the Cross that came to serve the King in India : among whom, was one of my Lord Archbishop’s brethren, called Roque da Fonseca [p. 37]. The other lords were Don Jorgie Tubal de Meneses, Chief Standard Bearer to the King of Portugal, newly chosen Captain of Soffala and Mozambique, in regard of certain service that he had, in times past, done for the King in India; Joan Gomes da Silva, the new Captain of Ormus: and Don Francisco Mascharenhas, brother of Don Julianes Mascharenhas that was slain in Sanguisceu, as I said before, who was to have had the Cap- tain’s place of Ormus; but, by means of his death, it was given unto his brother Don Francisco, for the term of three years, after he that is in it, had served his full time. In November after, the other three ships arrived in Cochin. They had sailed outside of Saint Lawrence’s Island [Mada- gascar], not putting into Mozambique. The ships’ names were Santa Maria, Arreliquias) and the admiral [flag ship] Las cinque chagas or “ The Five Wounds ” [i,e., of our Saviour, usually called, the Stigmata], In her, came the Viceroy Don Duarte de Meneses, that had been Captain of