16 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [February, 1911. 
At no time in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries were 
the Jesuits very numerous in Bengal. The following statistics 
culled by Father Besse from Catalogues and Annual Letters 
bear out this fact convincingly.! 
1601 yea 1628 7 1705 = 
1613 3 1630 ae! ogre Yh pee 
1615 — 1632 8 1718 ore 
1616 7 1633 fm haae ce 
1617 pe) 16406 3 1730 ais | 
1618 8 1642 4 1731 Pe | 
1620 9 1654 3 1737 a 
1623 ee 1688 - = & “1740 Nie 
1626 7 1697 4 
H. H., 8.J 
1604. 
IN BENGAL [BENGALLA}. 
In THE RestpENCE or CHANDECAN [Chandecanensi)]. 
Fr. Andrew Boves,” Preacher and Confessor. 
Fr. Dominic Souza, ° Confessor. 
In THE RESIDENCE OF THE ISLAND oF SUNDIVA. 
Fr. Blasius Nunes, Preacher and Confessor 
Fr. Natalis [Watalius} Salerno,’ Preacher and ws 
1 Cf. Catal. Miss. Sirsamocese Trichinopoli, 1909, App. 
2 Andrew Boves : nti ae of his, dated Siriam, in Pegu, March 28, 
1600, is found i opie a del P. bean Pimenta, Visitatore della 
C. di G. nell’ India Orsondéile.. Roma, 1601, 8°, pp. 80-83. Cf. 
Somm Bibl. dela QO. Vols. IT or VIIL, Col. 1896. Born at 
Messina in 1569; admitted in 158 
6 
B; ht ~ 
1600-06 ; Procurator of the Pr rovince G f Cochin i n 1606-10 ; was 7 years 
the Mission of M —s [this ave oe Thats 8 Bengal 1600- -06], and died i in 
Malabar in 1634. He had ¢ India in 1697, not yet a priest 
Franco). His n da Camara Manoel’s 
ente, Lisboa, 1894, p . 153. 
t Boeyro, Diocese of Bric in 1555; was 
Grammar; went to oe in: : 
race of him being found in the records of 
ma t ominie de Sousa, of t ovince of Entre Douro e Minho, 
Diocese of Braga, who died at Cochin in 4 sy s,’’ 38 
of which he had spent in the Societ Cf. So 
us Nunes: At ( 
BI 
rato, aged 41 years 1, of whic 
Be A 
anion, 8, Was ge the time in the Staleed 
of Sundiva. Father Nunes had com, ts aia in 1597 (Franco). da 
= Manoel mentions him in his li 
st under 1597 as not yet @ 
+ NatoliesSebicniis ' Sicilian, firs oe April 3, 1608, in the Bay of 
