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cover'd with green Cloath, fuch as is earri'd out of England. He told me I was 

 welcome, and after a Complement or two, he ask'd me what Religion I was of? 

 I anfwer'd him, of the Proteftant Religion. He ask'd me then, if" my Father and 

 Mother were of the fame Religion 5 and after I had fatisfi'd him that they were 

 fo;He told me again I was welcorne.calling out at the fame time for fbme other per- 

 fons to enter. Thereupon, the Hangings being held up, there came in ten or twelve 

 perfons out of another room hard- by. The rirft of the Train w r ere two Auftiu- 

 Friars, follow'd by two Dominicans, two barefoot-Carmelites, and fome other of 

 the Clergy ; whom the Inquifitor told who I was, and aifur'd them I had brought 

 no prohibited Books ; for indeed, knowing their orders, I had left my Bible at 

 /Aingrela. We difcours'd about two hours of feveral things, but particularly of 

 my Travels ; the whole Company testifying their deiire to hear me make fome 

 repetitions. Three days after the Inquifitor fent for me to dine with him at a fair 

 Houle, about half a league from the City, which belongs to the Barefoot- 

 Carmelites. It is one of the lovelieit Structures in all the Indus ; and I will tell you 

 in fhort how the Carmelites came by it. There was a Gentleman in Goa 3 whole 

 Father and Grandfather had got great Eftates by Merchandizing; and he it was 

 that built this Houle, which might well have pa ft for a molt noble Palace. He 

 had no mind to Marry, but being altogether addicted to his devotions, he very 

 much frequented the Auftin-Fridrs, to whom he fhew'd himfelf Co affectionate, 

 that he made his Will, wherein he gave them all his Eftate, provided they would 

 bury him on the right-iide of the High- A! tar, where he intended a iumptuous 

 Monument. Now according to the common report, this Gentleman was a Leaper, 

 which iome jealous perfons endeavour'd to make the WorW believe, feeing he had 

 given away all his Eftate to the A*fci»£ riars. Thereupon they told him that 

 the ground on the right-hand of the High-Altar was a place only fit for a Vice- 

 JLoj \ and that a leaprous perfon was not to be laid there : which was the opinion 

 of the generality of the people, and of a good part of the Auftin-Ffvixs them- 

 felves. Thereupon fome of the Fathers of the Covent coming to fpeak with the 

 Gentleman,on purpofe to perfwade him to choofe fome other place in the Church, 

 he was (b offended at the propofal, that he never went more to the ^ov/L';;- Friars, 

 but always went to perform his devotions among the Carmelites, who receiv'd 

 him with open arms, and accepted the conditions which the other had refus'd. 

 Nor did he live long after he had intereited himfelf with that Order ; fo that the 

 Carmelites having magnificently buri'd him, enjoy'd all his Eitate, with this fame 

 Houfe, where we were fplendidly entertain'd with Mufick all the time of Din- 

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1 ftaid at Go.t from the twenty -firft of January till the eleventh of March, de- 

 parting thence that very day in the evening, after I had taken leave of the Vice- 

 Roy. Ibegg'd leave alio of the ftcp-Rty for a French- Gentleman, whole name 

 was Bc/loy t \)) go along with me : which was granted me ■, but through the impru- 

 dence of that Gentleman, who did not tell me the realbn of his coming to Goa, he 

 had like to have been taken from me again,and it was an even-lay,that we had not 

 been both earri'd to the Inquifition. This Gentleman had left the place of his 

 Nativity to travel over Holland, where having run himlelf in debt, and rinding no 

 perfon that would lend him any Money, he refblv'd to go for India. Thereupon 

 he lifted himlelf as a private Souldier upon the accompt of the //o/'r ^'-Com- 

 pany ; and came to Batavia at the fame time that the Hollanders made War againft 

 the Portugueses in Ccylan. Being arrival, they fent him away among the recruits 

 which were fent into that Ifland ; and the HolUnd-Qtnen\\ feeing fuch a re- 

 inforcement of ftout men commanded by a FfwadkCaptain, whole name was 

 St. Amant, a perfon of great courage and experience ; he refblv'd to befiege Ne- 

 gvmbe, a considerable Fort in the ifland of Ctylan. They made two affaults, 

 wherein the French-men behav'd themfelves valiantly, especially Su Amant, and 

 John de Rofe, who were both wounded. The General of the Dutch, feeing them 

 to be two fuch men of courage, made a promhe that if Negombc were taken, 

 one of them two mould be Governor. The place was taken, and the General 

 kept his word with St. Amant : but the News being earri'd to Batavia, a young 

 Gentleman of kin to the General, and but newly arriv'd out of Holland^ obtain d 

 to be Governor of Nevombe, to the prejudice of St, Amant, and came with an 



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