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consequence ; and tlie second fled to Goa to escape liis ^•^• 

 father's resentment. 



John III. directed the Viceroy of India "to take a 

 slow and secure but severe revenge " for these excesses.^ 

 In 1560, the Viceroy of India, Don Constantine de Bra- 

 ganza, fitted out another armament against Jaffna on the 

 double plea that the persecution of the Christians had 

 been rencAved at Manaar and that the rei";niii<]!; sovereig^n 

 had usm^ped the rights of his elder brother the fugitive 

 at Goa. De Couto has devoted the Seventh Decade of 

 his History of India, to a pompous description of this 

 sacred war, in which the bishop of Cochin accompanied 

 the fleet along with the Viceroy, erected an altar on 

 the shore, and in the presence of the invading army in- 

 augurated the assaidt on the city by the celebration of a 

 mass, the announcement of a plenary indulgence for all 

 who shoidd fight, and of a general absolution for all 

 who might fall in the cause of the Cross.^ The assault 

 was successful but disastrous ; many fidalgos were slain 

 by the cannon of the enemy, the city was taken, the 

 palace consumed, and the king in his extremity, being 

 forced to make terms with the conquerors, was per- 

 mitted to retain his sovereignty on condition of his 

 disclosing the place of concealment of the treasm'es taken 

 from Kandy and Cotta by Tribula Banda, son-in-laAV of 

 Bhuwaneka VII. and father of Don Juan Dharma 

 Pala.^ He was to pay in addition a sum of 80,000 

 cruzadoes * and surrender the island of Manaar to the 

 Portuguese, who fortlnvith occupied and fortified it. 



Amongst the incidents of the victory De Couto 

 dwells on the seizure, by the Viceroy, of the dalada, the 

 "celebrated tooth of Buddha," which had been carried 



■■ Bald^us, in CnTTucniLL's Vo?/- 

 ages, vol. iii. p. 647. 



* De Couto, dec. vii. lib. iy. cli. ii. 

 vol. iv. pt. ii. p. 309. 



^ De Couto, dec. vii. lib. iii. cli. v. 

 vol. iv. pt. i. p. 210. 



■* A "cnizado," so called because 

 bearing a cross on the reverse, was 

 worth two shillings and uiuepeuce. 



