AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1584. 



they should be sent into Portugal! to the King, counsell- 

 ing them to yeeld themselves Jesuites into their Cloister, 

 which if they did, he sayd they would defend them from 

 all troubles, saying further, that he counselled them 

 therin as a friend, & one that knew for certaine that it 

 was so determined by the Viceroyes Privy councell : 

 which to effect he sayd they stayed but for shipping that 

 should saile for Portugal!, with divers other perswasions, 

 to put them in some feare, and so to effect their purpose. 

 The English men to the contrary, durst not say any thing 

 to them, but answered, that as yet they would stay a 

 while, and consider thereof, thereby putting the Jesuites 

 in comfort, as one among them, being the principal! of 

 them (called John Newbery) complained unto me often 

 times, saying that he Icnew not what to say or thinke 

 therein, or which way he might be ridde of those troubles : 

 but in the end they determined with themselves to depart 

 from thence, and secretly by meanes of other friendes 

 they imployed their money in precious stones ; which the 

 better to effect, one of them was a Jeweller, and for the 

 same purpose came with them. Which being concluded 

 among them, they durst not make knowen to any man, 

 neither did they credite us so much, as to shew us their 

 mindes therein, although they tolde us all whatsoever they 

 knew. But on a Whitsunday they went abroad to sport 

 themselves about three miles from Goa, in the mouth 

 of the river in a countrey called Bardes, having with them 

 good store of meate and drinke. And because they 

 should not be suspected, they left their house and shoppe, 

 with some wares therein unsolde, in custody of a Dutch 

 boy, by us provided for them, that looked unto it. This 

 boy was in the house not knowing their intent, and being 

 in Bardes, they had with them a Patamar, which is one 

 of the Indian postes, which in the Winter times carieth 

 letters from one place to the other, whom they had hired 

 to guide them : and because that betweene Bardes and 

 the firme land there is but a little river, in a maner halfe 

 drie, they passed over it on foot, and so travelled by land, 



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