a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1590. 



(being more then five yeeres) certaine of the common 

 people were restrained from false superstition to 

 Christian religion, and seventy persons were baptized. 

 But the enemy of mankinde, who omitteth none oppor- 

 tunity for the hinderance of Christian religion, suggested 

 into the mindes of the Chinians (being, as I sayd, of 

 their owne nature, a people estranged from the traffique 

 and acquaintance of other nations, and alwayes being 

 too too suspicious of strangers) that they should 

 exhibite letters of supplication unto the Caien and the 

 Tutan their principall Magistrates, to have the fathers 

 expelled out of Xauquin : which Magistrates repairing 

 unto their foresayd house and Church entered consul- 

 tation how they might bannish them out of the sayd 

 City of Xauquin : in which thing verily they used 

 great moderation, not any way offending or exasperating 

 the mindes of the fathers, but onely signifying that 

 they had regard unto the estate of their Common- 

 wealth. For the Tutan or Vice-roy calling the fathers 

 unto him, and (to let passe other accidents) using 

 courteous and familiar conference with them, declared 

 by many arguments, that their habitation in the City 

 of Xauquin was not convenient, especially sithens so 

 many Magistrates resorted unto that City, who would 

 take great offence at the presence of strangers. For 

 the which cause he perswaded them to accept some 

 part of the money which they had bestowed in the 

 building of their house, and so to returne either home 

 into their owne countrey, or unto the port of Macao. 

 Howbeit, such was the instant supplication of the 

 fathers, and so woorthy of compassion, that the Tutan 

 or Vice-roy, in the extreame and mediterrane borders 

 of the province of Coantum, assigned unto them a new 

 habitation at the city called Xaucheo, commending them 

 also to a certaine Magistrate, who was come from the 

 same place to salute him. Thither therefore the sayd 

 fathers, not without great sorrow and griefe of the 

 Christians, hied themselves, and as we are informed by 



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