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Pol. 6 74 y. voucher for twenty-seven thousand rupees. With this alms we || maintained ourselves 

 and gave charity to the poor Christians. Mirza told us that he gave us the said alms 

 to fulfil his duty as executor of his father's will. 



" On the ground of this ordinary allowance which Mirza gave us, we received the 



following : — 



Rs. 



In the year 1614, from the month of July . . 1,200 



In the year 1615, we received . 2,400 



In the year 1616, we received . . 2,400 



In the year 1617, we received . . 2,400 



In the year 1618, we received . . 2 400 



Total of the above . . 10,800 



Which with the aforesaid sum of .-. 14,010 



Makes .. 24,810 



" At this time, being Superior of the Mission in the place of Fr. Antonio Machado, 

 deceased at Agra, 1 I proposed to Mirza that, though the King was giving us now 

 again the ordinary allowance, which for the present was sufficient for our upkeep 

 and that of the poor Christians, he should give us once for all, instead of his monthly 

 donation of Rs. 200, a goodly alms with which to buy in India immovable property, 

 Pol. 67 sr. so that, if at any time the King's alms failed us, || we might therewith maintain our- 

 selves and our Christian poor, thus precluding the necessity of our leaving the 

 country for want of means. This plan pleased Mirza so much that he promised at 

 once, and shortly after gave us, twenty thousand rupees. Even then he did not 

 cease giving us his monthly donation of Rs. 200. Fr Jose de Castro took this sum 

 to Goa, whither he went chiefly to negotiate this affair, which, thanks to God, was 

 concluded. 2 By means of our Fathers, we bought the two aldeas (villages) which 



' The Annual Letter of Mogor for 1619 states that the .Superior of the Mission died three days before the arrival of 

 the Fathers who accompanied Jahang:rback to Agra. Jailing r was so fond of their company that he would not allow 

 them to forestall by a few days his own arrival at Agra. Now, the Tuzuk-i- J ahangirl (A. Rogers' and H. Beveridge's 

 transl. II. 65-66) says that Jahinglr arrived on January 8 (?), 1619 at Fathpur Sikri, where he stayed owing to the 

 bubonic plague then ravaging Agra. On the 1st Urdibihisht, Hijr 1028 (April 1619), Jahanglr made his entrance into 

 Agra (ibid., p. 84). One of the Fathers who accompanied him must have been Fr. Corsi, from whom we have a letter 

 dated Fathpur. April 3, 1619. Curiously enough, the inscription over Father Machado's tomb in the Martyrs' Chapel, 

 Padres Sa ltos' Cemetery, Agra, says : AQVI IAZ O PE / ANTONIO MA/CHADO FALE/CEO AOS 4 DE / A.BRIL DO 

 1636. || (Here lies Padre Antonio Machado ; died on the 4th of April 1636). This is evidently not the date of his death. 

 An old transcription of the inscriptions in the Martyrs' Chapel, mixed with gloses and preserved in the Archives of the 

 Catholic Mission at Agra, says: "Here lies Padre Antonio Machado, whither he was transferred from the destroyed 

 Church on the 4th of April 1636." We know that the Jesuit Church at Agra was pulled down in 1636 under strict orders 

 from Shah Jahan. The date of Fr. Machado's inscription is then that of the translation of his remains. He appears in 

 the catalogues of Mogor in 1605, 1606, 1607, 1609, 1610, 1611, 1612, 1613, 1614, 1616, 1618. Some of the intervening 

 catalogues and that of 1619 are missing. The catalogue of 1618 calls him Superior. His name drops out in the catalogues 

 of 1620 and subsequent years. Sommervogel, Bibl. de la Comp. de Jesus, says that he became Superior of Mogor in 1613 

 (a mistake for 1618 ?) and died at Angola on August 27, 1627. There must have been two Anthony Machados ; one who, 

 according to Elesban de Guilhermy, S.J., Minol. de la C. de J., died at Angola on August 27, 1627, aged 33 ; the other, 

 our Missionary in Mogor, who in 1614 was 53 years old, of which he had spent 36 in the Society. Cf. J.A.S.B., 1910, pp. 

 459*2, 529. 



* In June 1620. Cf. supra (p. 129), extracts from Ann. Letter of Mogor for 1620. 



