1896.] EH. D. Maclagan— Jesuit Missions to the Emperor Akbar. 69 
ria Pontificum, the Chronica of 8S. Francis, Sylvester, Navarrus, and Caietanus 
—these two in duplicate. Also the Laws of Portugal, the Commentaries 
of Alfonso Albuquerque, the Constitutions of the Society, and the Exercitia, 
and the ‘Ars’ of Father Alvarez and several other books.‘ He gave us as 
many as we asked for, to wit all the above mentioned. Both Emperor and 
Prince favoured us and treated us with much kindness: and I observed that 
he paid to none of his own people as much attention as he paid to us, for 
he desires us to sit in turn upon the cushion on which he and the Prince 
alone are wont to sit. Itis his custom to go out to a certain dais which 
projects into the Courtyard of the Palace, whither all the Governors and 
a large number of others collect to meet him: and thither we also went 
sometimes to see him. When he observed us he greeted us with great kind- 
ness, bowing his head, and bade us come near and take a convenient seat: an 
honour which he does not show even to the kings and princes that stand at 
his side.’ 
Pinheiro goes on to describe the great gifts brought to Akbar, 
and more particularly the manner in which he received, on the 28th 
August 1595, the penitent Viceroy of Qandahar,? and the gifts he re- 
ceived from him and from the Prince Sultan Murad, the Viceroy of 
Bengal and others. He then continues : 
‘The Emperor and the Prince have often times given us leave to build 
our Church: but when we for certain reasons pretended we had forgotten 
about it, lo! at the Festival of St. Mary at Nives,® the Emperor again said 
‘Fathers, build a Church and make all Christians as many as of their own 
free will desire to be Christians.’ But when we asked him for a written 
expression of his will under his own hand, he replied that he himself 
as a living document would meet the case. The Prince also often pro- 
mised that he would supply all that was necessary for the building: a site 
has been fixed which is extremely convenient and near the palace: and we 
trust in God that the harvest will be plentiful. The Emperor has entirely 
overturned (omnino evertit) the Muhammandan heresy and does not recognize 
1 The Biblia Regia is perhaps the same as that presented by Aquaviva (p. 50 
above.) S. Thomas is Aquinas. Soto is probably Domingo de Soto a scholastic 
writer of the middle of the sixteenth century. S. Antoninus of Forciglione lived 
1389— 1459. Sylvester may be the second Pope of that name, a considerable 
writer on theology (d. 1003.) Navarrus is perhaps Father Juan Aspidueta, surnamed 
Navarro, Jesuit Missionary in Brazil and a connection of the Kaviers (d 1555.) 
Cardinal Cajetan (1470—1534) who cited Luther at Augsburg was a writer on 
Aquinas and other subjects. The Commentaries are those of the great Albuquerque 
published by his son in 1557. The Hxercitia Spiritualia are the Devotions issued by 
Ignatius Loyola and the ‘ Ars’ appears from Du Jarric’s translation to have been a 
Latin Grammar. 
2 Vicerex Canaha frater consobrinus Satamas. Probably Muzaffar Husain, 
Cousin of Shah ‘Abbas. (Blochm. Azn: I. 313). Satamas, sc. Shah ‘Abbas not Shah 
Tahmasp. cf. Arber, English Garner III, 316. 
3 August oth. 
