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of the common sort was without means, the Umbraos taking only the captives from 

 Bengala, both men and women, who could be of use to them. Therefore, as they 

 were so many and the Fathers could not help both our poor Christians and the new 

 arrivals, misery and poverty drove many of the latter to become renegades, while the 

 others were helped by the Fathers. From a spiritual point of view: because so many 

 of them apostatized, nay — for our sins, alas! — Portuguese of the flower of Portugal. 

 All these were a bad example to our Christians. Add also to the King's and Mulnas' 

 fury in destroying the Church that, one Holy Saturday morning (through the 

 imprudence of the Christians of Bengala, who fancied they were at home) there 

 was to be seen hanging in the street of our College an effigy of Judas, a mannikin 

 of straw with turban and cabaya, when, lo ! in came without delay the Cassiz and 

 the Mulnas, fuming with anger, and saying that the Christians had hanged their 

 Muhammad. Reason as we might, there was no persuading them that the figure 

 Foi. 430. was that of Judas, and that some thoughtless Christian || had done it, whom they 

 were welcome to punish soundly. And I have said why King Xajan got so angry, 

 and which were his reasons for ordering the destruction of the Church of the Agra 

 College. 



" We have also in the City of L,aor a very large house containing two small halls, 

 a room, and a very fine varanda. Below the varanda, on the ground-floor, the place 

 is very convenient to allow the Christians, who are found in that City, to hear Mass, 

 when now and again one of Ours goes there, or while he resides there, when the King goes 

 there with his Court.' We are very well known in the City of I y aor, for King Janguir 

 held his Court there ; here lived Fr. Jeronimo Xavier and others, his companions, 

 and King Janguir was so familiar with the Fathers that he would at times come to 

 our house, and during the Christmas season grand cribs were erected with many 

 figures and hydraulic inventions, 2 the King spending much money on it. At times 

 the Fathers sent to Goa for one of our Brothers to manage the crib. The last who 

 was sent for it was one Martis, 3 a very expert lay-brother, who was at Dio [Diu] and 

 thence went to Mogol, when I was a novice/ During his lifetime, Janguir paid for the 

 Fathers' maintenance. Each had daily from him so many rupees: Fr. Hieronimo 

 Xavier had ten rupees a day; another five, another seven, another three, so that the 

 Fathers had plenty for themselves and for giving alms to the poor Christians. King 

 Xajan, his son, continued to pay daily the same sum to the Fathers, until he caused 

 the destruction of the Church we had in Agra 5 ; and he would have continued the 

 expense, if the Fathers of those days had asked him or reminded him of it; but they 

 had very good and just reasons for renouncing it, if they received already at Goa 

 the revenues of the foundation for the College of Agra made by our Brother Mirza 

 Zulcarane. 6 



1 It will be remembered that the Jesuit Church built at Lahore by Akbar was destroyed at the end of 1635. 



2 Fountains? 3 Martins. 



* This would show that Fr. Botelho entered the Society in India. His name is not in Franco's list of the Jesuits 

 who embarked at Lisbon for the East. b Fnd of 1635. 



6 The title " brother" is explained by his participation, as founder of the Agra College, in the spiritual merits of the 

 Society. 



