364 Journal of the Asiatic Sociely of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
Ay en esta isla .6. iglesias, 
en las quales todas residian 
p*s de la Comp* occupandose 
en la conuersion de tanta gen- 
tilidad, y auia ya cerca de 
10000 X’paos y mill cathe- 
cumenos ; mas con la guerra 
q’ v n Goa con el Hydal- 
can 2a afio de 71 y con la q’ 
agora vbo por causa de Dabul 
y del aleuantam’ de los gen- 
q 
el Visorey Don Ant?® el ano de 
66. mando derriuar y applicar 
las rentas a las iglesias, y el 
Concilio primero p‘uincial de 
Goa asento q’ se les quitasé 
todas las ceremonias de sus ca- 
y hazienda y parientes por 
guardar y conseruar la fee. 
There are in this island 6 
Churches, in all of which there 
resided Fathers of the Com- 
pany, who laboured for the 
conversion of so vast a gentili- 
ty; and there were already 
about 10,000 Christians and 
one thousand catechumens ; 
but, owing to the war which 
there was with the Hydalcan 
in the year [15]71, and on 
account of the one waging 
now because of Dabul and the 
rebellion of the goatee 
they would not grant them 
pagodes and ceremonies, Vice- 
roy Don Antonio! having 
ordered to destroy them in 
the year [15]66 and to apply 
the revenues thereof to the 
Churches, and the first Pro- 
vincial Council of Goa * agreed 
that they should be forbidden 
all the ceremonies of their 
marriages and their anointing 
themselves with sandal—the 
——- suffered some de- 
riment, and it was impossible 
z proceed with the work of 
conversion ; but all the Chris- 
tians withdrew to Goa and its 
aldeas, wherein they gave 
much edification abandoning 
their country and property 
and relatives in order to keep 
and preserve their faith. 
1 Don Antonio de Noronha, 9th 
cai left Lisbon, March 29, 
1564: go 
noel Xavier, 8.J., mm: 
univers tod 
overnadores, , Imprensa 
Nacional, 191 
17, p. 68. f 
2 The first Provincial Council o 
Goa sat in 1567. 

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