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c< rando cantores adeo liberalis, ut vel equum, vel elephant-em 

 tC crebro donaret in praemium, aureae totus condition is, ad 

 1 ' condonandurn injurias f acilis ; et aliorum flexus adarbitria. Hie 

 i§ est, qui ad maximos a rege invitatus honores. et ad millionem 

 " annui redditus, si veram abjiceret Religionem, affligi cum popu- 

 u lo Dei maluit, et vitam agere minus divitem, dummodo coeli 

 " divitias potiretur, fieretque regni non perituri particeps et 

 cc haeres; hie est, qui cujusdam in dignitate constituti Ecclesias- 

 M tici venenata tela in Societatem emissa repulit in authorem, 

 14 Mogoresque missionarios a gravi poense vulnere libera vit. 

 * ■ Hie denique est qui Patrem Henricum Buseum l immeriti> 

 " e vinculis dissolvit, Regemque Christiana libertate sic est 

 ' alloc utus, ut caput ferro promitteret, si aliquando, quod 

 " Patri impositum fuerat, pro vero haberetur. 



" Nupsit vir iste D. Dominse Helense illustri feminse, tres 

 " aceepit ex ea filios; Mirsam Observam [?], Mirsam Eres [?], 

 c< Mirzam Daniel; quos o nines vivus adhuc in magnis vidisset 

 c< constitutos honoribus, Mancebedares et Umbraos si Maho- 

 c< metis legem amplecterentur, uti Rex firma fide pollicebatur." 



So far the Latin. The Portuguese seems to say much 

 more about Zu-1 Qarnin. We learn, for instance, that he was 

 an Armenian, that he had three sons and one daughter, and 

 that his wife Helena was buried at Lahore (Fol. 45v). Fol. 44 

 states that he was for many years in charge of the pargana of 

 Sambhar. Zu-1 Qarnin is referred to by Coryat as in charge of 

 the salt works of Sambhar. Jahangir, too, refers to him and 

 to his skill in Hindi melodies. Cf. Syad Ahmed's edition of 

 Jahangir 9 s Memoirs, p. 324, in the account of the 15th year. 



The Cotton MSS. (Brit. Mus.) Vespasianns F. XII, 141 and 

 143, and Titus B. VII, 118, contain Anthony Machado 's letter in 

 Portuguese and English, but I could not read them. 3 



Mr. H. Beveridge's extracts from Father Botelho's report are 

 of exceptional value for us. We knew already that Mirza Zu-1 



l Fr. Henry Busi, an alias for Henry Uwens, came to India in 164 * 

 and was at Agra in 1648. He died at Delhi on April 6, 1667. Cf. W 

 Irvine, Storia do Mogor, Vol. IV, Index. 



% The name of the second may be Irij or Irich. This was the 

 name of Faridun slain by his brother Tur. It was also the name of the 



eldest son of the Khan- Khanan Abdu-r Rahim. Cf. Blochmann, pp. 339, 

 491. [H. B] "" 



3 The letter consists of 2 pp. and was sent by Fr. Anthony 

 Machado, S.J., to Fr. Claudius Aquaviva, the General of the Society in 

 Rome. It is dated: Agra, 7 Apr., 1615, There is also among the Cotton 

 MSS. an English translation of a letter of Fr. Joseph de Castro, S.J., 

 addressed to Claudius Aquavivaand dated Agra, 10 Apr. . 1615. (Cf. Cotton 

 MSS. Vespasianns F.7., XII). The original is in codex Titus, 8, VII 

 Cf. C. Sommervogel , Bihl. de la C. de J., under A. Machado and J. de 

 Castro. 



