60 KE. D. Maclagan — Jesuit Missions to the Emperor Akbar. [No.J, 
Tur Szeconp Mrisston, 1590-91.! 
We hear nothing further of Akbar’s relations towards the Chris- 
tians till 1590, in which year, we are told, he began to show unmistake- 
able signs of a distinct leaning towards Christianity. There being 
then at his court a Greek sub-deacon named Leo Grimon,? returning 
from, we know not where, to his native country, the Emperor took the 
opportunity of sending him to Goa with letters for the Viceroy and for 
the Father of the Society, asking for a further mission to his court. 
Translations of the warrant of safe conduct given to Grimon and of the 
letter which he took to the Fathers have been preserved and run as 
follows? :—- 
Parwéna of Akbar granted to Leo Grimon. 
Order of His Highness Munammad, great King and Lord of. the 
Fosliera,# to all the Captains, Viceroys, Governours, rulers and other officers 
of my realm. 
‘I would have you know that I have shown much honour and favour to. 
Dom Leo Grimon, willing thereby that you should do likewise, inasmuch 
as I hope to obtain by his means certain other learned Fathers from Goa, by 
whom I trust to be restored from death unto life through their holy doctrine 
even as their Master Jesus Christ, coming from Heaven to: Harth, raised 
many from the dead and gave them life. On this occasion I am summoning 
the most learned and virtuous of the Fathers, by whom I would be taught 
many things concerning: the faith of the Christians and of the royal high- 
way whereon they travel to God’s presence. Wherefore I order my officers: 
aforesaid to bestow great honour and favour both on Dom Leo Grimon and 
on the Fathers for whom I am sending, in all the towns of my realm through 
which they shall pass, granting them an escort to. conduct them safely from 
40own to, town, providing them with all that is necessary for themselves and 
their beasts, and all else they need, at my charges: and you shall be res-. 
ponsible for their safe arrival and shall take heed that they lose nothing 
which they have with them. I order also my captain Khankhanar (mon 
Capitaine Canchena)? to forward them safely tomy Captaim Raizza (?)8, who. 
1 Our chief authorities for the mission are the Prowincial’s: letters of November: 
4590 and November 1591, published by Spitilli, with their-enclosures. The accounts: 
by Guzman and Du Jarric are little more than copies of these. 
2 We hear of Grimon again, in 1602 when: he accompanied Benedict de Goes as: 
far as Kabul, turning back there because ‘ unable to. stand! the fatigues:of the jour- 
ney’ (Trigautius, in Yule’s: Cathay and the way thither, IL 558-7.) 
3 Translated from Du Jarrie’s French version. 
4 So Du Jarric. The Latin has Fostiera. Perhaps “Fasli era.’ is meant. 
6 Mirza ‘ Abdu-r-rahim. Khan, son of Bairam Khan, and commander in Gujrat. 
8. Pezhaps Rai Singh of Bikanir. Blochm. Ain I. 357. Iam unable to identify 
Giabiblica. unless he be Raja ‘Ali Khan of Khandesh. (Blochm. Am 1. 32%.) 
