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we have in the North. They cost twenty-seven thousand rupees, 1 So, we had a debt 

 of seven thousand rupees ; but, we paid off at once four thousand rupees which 

 Mirza gave us, and the rest was repaid. But, as at that time Fr. Andre Boves 

 was Superior and had this matter in hand, I do not well remember how the sum was 

 paid." However, I always considered it certain that it was paid, either from the 

 extraordinary alms Mirza gave us, or from the revenues which the aldeas were 

 already yielding for us. When these aldeas were bought, our Fathers in India, knowing 

 Mirza's good heart and how great and munificent a benefactor he was to us, resolved 

 in the Congregation then held to petition our Father General in behalf of the whole 

 Province ; to accept Mirza as a founder/ Our Father General granted the favour, Pol. 675V. 

 as appears from a letter of our Father Assistant, dated the 31st December 1621, in 

 answer to one of Fr. Jose de Castro. He says : — 



1 " Parela [Parel. Bombay] is another house [of the Jesuits] with a church, closer to the town [of Bombay], the reve- 

 nues of which went to the College of Agra. This villa has passed imder the English jurisdiction." Cf. Bernduii,i,i, Des- 

 cription Hist et Geogr.de I'lnde, I. (1786), p. 411. — " A Franciscan chapel is said to have been built at Parel At some 

 later date, the estates on which this church stood, and possibly the church itself, passed into the hands of the Jesuits of 

 Bandra [some time before 1653, and probably about 1620]. When the Jesuit property was finally confiscated by the 

 Government in 1720, this chapel and the residence attached were utilised with additions as ' Government House.' The 

 chapel still remains embodied in the building of the Government laboratory, now used for the manufacture of plague pro- 

 phylactic. The designation of the chapel is unknown." Cf. 15 Huix, S.J., The Examiner, Bombay, 1907, Aug. 31, p. 343. 

 The date 1620 is the more correct one, as we now see. " The Jesuits of Bandra were large land-owners in the northern 

 parts of the island of Bombay (Parel, Naigaon, Vadala, Mahim, Dharavi, etc.). They held this property in trust as a 

 source of revenue for the support of various missions, such as those of Goa, Cochin, Agra, Japan, China, etc., and differ- 

 ent Fathers or lay-brothers were appointed as procurators of the same. When in 1665 Bombay was handed over to the 

 English, the Jesuits laid claim to these lands, but were refused. The matter gave friction from time to time between the 

 Portuguese and the English — which reached a climax in 1719, when the Government finally declared the property of the 

 Order confiscated to the Crown." Id., ibid., August 3, 1907, p. 304. See also Aug. 31, 1907, pp. 343-344 ; Oct. 5, 1907, 

 pp. 394-395. Fr. E Hull suggests very correctly that the Jesuits secured landed property in Portuguese territory to evade 

 the difficulties of the Moslem property-law. In fact, all the land belonged to the King and all property of the Grandees 

 reverted to the Crown after their death. 



•' The first founder of the Agra College and of its Mission was Senhor Mirza Zulcarne, who gave a sum sufficient to 

 buy the village (aldea) of Parela in Bombaim and another called. . . .in Salcete of the North. From Parela that Mission 

 received eight thousand xerafins, and from 4 to 5 [thousand] from. . . .[the other aldea (?) ; the name of the aldea is 

 missing in the original, as above]. But, as the English took Parela, the College and the Mission were much crippled and in 

 debt, until the Senhora Juliana Dias da Costa offered to become a second and new foundress ; she gave 50 thousand xerafins, 

 which being profitably placed partly met with the revenues of the aldea and other values (estimacoe's) the necessities ot 

 the Mission, which costs yearly from 9 to 10 thousand xerafins, owing to the great dearness in those lands and the 

 enormous expenses incurred by the journey of the Fathers and sending up their provisions." (L. o das MoncoSs, No. 79, 

 fol. 331). Extract from Annual Letter of Fr. Antonio de Azevedo, Provincial S. J., Goa, 1714. Cf. Orients Povtugnez, 

 Nova Goa, Vol. VII, 1910, pp. 182-183. 



2 Father Andrew Boves is to be added to our List of Jesuit Missionaries in Mogor, J.A.S.B., 1910, November. 

 Since he is called Superior, not Provincial, he must have been Superior of Mogor. His notice in our List of Portuguese 

 Jesuit Missionaries in Bengal, J. A. S.B., 191 1 , Febr., p. 16, says that he was seven years in Mogor, whence, knowing noth- 

 ing then of his Superiorship at Agra, we concluded in 191 1 that, as he was a Missionary in Bengal, he had spent in Bengal 

 the period 1600-05. We now find that he wrote a letter from Cochin on Nov. 30, 1605, at which time he must have be- 

 come Procurator at Cochin. It is not easy to account for the seven years he spent in Mogor, unless we include in them his 

 stay in Bengal He is not mentioned in what we know of the Mogor Catalogues of 1606-24 ; yet, only the catalogues of 

 1608, 1617, 1619, 1622-23 are missing. No catalogues for Mogor are available between 1625 and 1641. We suggest that 

 Fr. Boves was Superior of Mogor some time between 162 1 and 1624. 



3 The printed Annual Letters of Goa for 1619, 1620-24 say nothing of a Congregation held at this time. A Con- 

 gregation was held at Lisbon in April 1619, April 1622, April 1625. 



The Procurators sent from Portugal to Rome on those respective occasions were Fathers Antonio Castelbranco, Antonio 

 Abreu, and Francisco Mendoza. Cf. A. Franco, S.J., Synopsis Annal. Soc. Jesu in Lusitania (1540-1725), Augustae- 

 Vindel., MDCCXXVI, pp. 226, 233, 243. 



