442 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [August 1910. 



sendo R°: deste Colleg . de 8. P{° a 2 a 

 ves [?] em o p r .° de Margo de 604. 



[P. 475 in Index.] 

 We translate : Some edifying parti- 

 culars concerning Fathers Nuno Roiz 

 [Rodriguez], who was Provincial of 

 this Province and died on March 1, 

 1604, while for the second time Rector 

 of this College of St. Paul. 1 



Xone. 479 to 481. Three blank leaves belonging to preced- 



ing document. 



21. 482. Last or outside sheet of preceding 



document. 



•12 to 31. 461 to 470. Anna do Sul de 602. [P. 461 in Index.] 



Annual Letter of the South for 1602. 



32 to 35. 471 to 474. RelaQdo da cristandade de 8. Thome feita 



pello R":° S or D. P e . Francisco Roz, 

 da CoP a de Jesus, pri r .° Bispo Latino 

 da qtta z Xandade. [P. 471 in Index.] 

 Account of the Christian Community 

 of St. Thomas written by the Lord 

 Bishop Father Francis Roz, of the 

 Society of Jesus, first Latin Bishop 

 of that Christian Community. 3 



Mr. P. did not go further in his comparison of the pencil and 



ink numberings. He gives us a copy of the remainder of the 

 Index on fol. 1. 



Annua do Sul do anno de 1603. P. 475. 



Annual [Letter] of the South for the year 1603. 



Annua do Sul de 1604 e 1605. P. 501. 



RelaQdo da Ghristandade da Serra de 1604. P. 525. 



Account of the Christian Community of the 

 Serra for 1604. 

 Annua do Sul de 1615. 



P. 537. 



1 Born at Evora ; entered St. Roch's Novitiate, Lisbon, Jan. 7, 1560; 

 sailed for India with Fr. Valignano and 37 other companions in 1574; 

 was twice Rector of St. Paul's College, Goa, the first time for seven 

 years, the second time for five; went as Procurator to Rome with the 

 Japanese ambassadors in 1583 ; acted for a time as Socius to the Visitor, 

 Fr. Nich. Pimenta; was five years Provincial of the Province of India; 

 was proposed to the dignity of Bishop of Japan by Fr. Alex. Valignano ; 

 died at Goa, March 1, 1604, and was buried on the Gospel side of the 

 principal chapel of St. Paul's Church, in the same grave as the former Pro- 

 vincials, Antonio de Quadros and Ruy Vicente. Cf. A. Franco, S.J., 

 Imagem da Virtude em o Noviciado de Lisboa, Vol. II, pp. 332—36. 



Franco utilized a necrological notice sent from Goa by Fr. Francis de 

 Sousa. 



* Qsta (?) = questa. 



s The heading is not easy to read, the document being much damaged. 

 It looks as if it had been in water. The ink has run. This Belagao 

 is dated : 1602. [Mgr. A. E. Mediycott.] 



