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Marsden MSS. in the British Museum 



new Church : composed by Fr. Alex 

 of Jesus, in the year 1601.' 



No. 9858 : 



4 C 



Java 



a$erca do estado da quella nova igreia, 17 Nov. 1597 ; — Outra 

 certidao do Capitao mar da viagem de Japao, 1597; — Belagao 

 do triste succeso e perda da nad 8. Phelipe ; — Belagao da morte 

 de sets religiosos descalgos do ordem de S. Francesco e outros 17 

 Chnstaos Japoes que Taicosama mandou cruet ficar e Nangasaqui ; 

 - Relation de las cosas de Japon, 1597 ;—Apuntamentos sobre o 

 remedio da Christandad de Jappad para se aprezentare ao Senor 

 Visor ey ; — Tratado que os religiosos de 8. Francesco espalharao 

 em Goa e em Bagaim no anno de 1598, contra os padres da Comp! 

 de Jesus que andao na conversad de Jappad ; — Certidao que o 

 Bispo de Jappad, Dom Pedro Martinez, passou acerqua da 

 morte dos religiosos e Christaos que farad crucificados em Japao 

 no anno de 1597 ; — Apollogia en la qual se responde a diver sas 

 calumnias que se escrivieron contra los padres de la Companhia 

 de Jesus de Japon y de la China, hecha par el Padre Alexandro 

 Valignano . ' ' Folio . z 



1. Memorandum by His Lordship Dom Pedro, Bishop of 

 Japan, concerning the state of that Church, 17 Nov. 1597 : 

 2. Other memorandum by the Captain-Major concerning the 

 voyage to Japan, 1597 ; — 3. Relation of the sad fortune and 

 loss of the St. Philip ; — 4. Relation of the death of six Discalced 

 Friars of the Order of St. Francis, and 17 other Japanese Christians 

 whom Taicosama had crucified at Nangasaqui ; — 5. Relation 

 on the affairs of Japan, 1597 ; — 6. Notes concerning the help 

 to be given to the Mission of Japan, to be presented to His 

 Excellency the Viceroy ; — 7. Tract which the Religious of St. 

 Francis spread at Goa and Bagaim in 1598 against the Fathers 

 of the Society of Jesus who labour for the conversion of Japan ; 

 8. Memorandum sent by Dom Pedro Martinez, Bishop of Japan, 

 concerning the death of the Religious and Christians crucified 

 in Japan, in 1597 ; — 9. Apology by Fr. Alex. Valignano in 

 answer to divers calumnies written against the Fathers of the 

 Society of Jesus in Japan and China. 



No. 9859 is :— 6 ' A Collection of Annual Reports relative to the 

 state of the Jesuit Missions in Japan ; of various dates, from 1585 to 

 1625. ' ' Partly Spanish , partly Portuguese. 



1 Id. Cf. Ibid., Vol. VIII, col. 406, A. The second part is in the 

 Ajuda Library, MS. 25/12 from foil. 244 to 420. 



* References to Fr. C. Sommervogel, S.J., op. ctt., X, Coll. lo4.»- 

 1549, and Fr. A. Carayon's Biblioth. Historigue delaC.de J., Paris, 1864, 

 will show that several of these documents have appeared in print. Xos. 

 4 and 8 are probably reproduced in No. 4, Col. 655, of C. Sommervogel, 

 op. cit., Vol. V, editions of which appeared at Madrid in 1599 and 1601, 

 at Rome in 1599 ; No. 9 is B of Col. 406, C. Sommervogel, Vol. V. 



