26 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [February, 1911. 
1677. 
Fr. Benedict da [de] Costa: from Ceylon; of Portuguese 
parentage ; aged 40; 2i of Society ; not yet professed ; 
at the end of his studies he was applied to the Madura Mission, 
and laboured some years in that Mission in the condition of a 
Brahman [Sanyasi] ; was next occupied for a short time in the 
Missions of the Travancore Coast and the Fishery Coast ; finally, 
was sent to the College of Bengal; there he lost the use of his 
reason ; but, remedies are at present applied.! 
Fr. Emmanuel Gonsalves . . . . was Rector of the College 
of Bengal; he is now again Rector of the same College: weak 
in health and sometimes ill. 
Fr, Anthony de Figueiredo: from Negapatam; formed 
spiritual coadjutor ; aged 70; 50 years of Society ; was twice 
Rector of the College of Negapatam ; then Rector of the Col- 
lege of San Thomé; finally Rector of the College of era in 
which he was once before and is now again acting as Visitor 
Finances (1677). 
In this College there live three Fathers of the Society of 
Jesus: a Rector and two companions; all priests. The Rector 
and one companion are supported by the revenues of a certain 
property [praedii] liberally granted by the Prince of that King- 
se for ri ch purpose; the third is maintained by the revenues 
0 
f. Catal. Miss. Madur. Scshidepoly : 1910, Appendix, p. 43, (1673) 
De 
7 
ve hers — onut-garden of Betim the great (o grande), in the village 
Piler n which was the casa of the Catechumens, from the year 
1762, with its hi ill and annexes; 1,400 zs. : 100 #. : 00d. [yearly revenue. | 
issi f d 
nut-garden belonged to the Mission o uerem 
[Madura] in Malabar, and was bou by order e roy 
ee t da Ega, of September 11, 1762, for lodging and maintaining the 
techumens and those charged with their casa, which a Royal Letter 
of April 9, 1704, patel to be kept, in order that the Catechumens 
of 
it. 
casa of the Catccnenasne situated in Beti im, in the village of 
Pileme, on the right bank of the Mandovi river Loa, 3 is a small Acero | 
othing remarkable about it ;in charge of it were the Father 
tho Christian ns, 1 Chaplain, 1 Sacri stan, | Clerk tsleesnenelaesdh and ser- 
vants, ’ pp. 303, 304 of Annaes Maritimos e Coloniaes, Lisbon, 
1843; sis pp. 300, 301, 302. 
This adhe of Betty 0 r Betti in the territory of Bardez (Goa) is 
ioned in 1667, 1688, 1667 (Cf. Cat. Miss. Madurenis 1910 » pp. 38, 
25 
’ . Xs. ; was 
in 1740, and gave 3000 Xs. in 1743 and 1746. (Cf. Catal. Miss. “Mad 911, 
Pp? 79, 83, 86.) The King of Portugal ought to have eves fae the 
aintenance of the Missionaries of the Madura vom on. bea Sea nl 
800 rafins were es the upkeep of 4 Missi with 
bi ona mah of the Governors, ne [?] de Mello de C Castes aa | Anhody 
Coutinho, the revenues of the al pe eld at Betty were applied 
