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covcr'd with green Cloath, fuch as is carri'd out of England. He rold 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 j and after I had fatisfi'd him that they were 

 fojHe told me again I was welcome,calling out at the fame time for fome 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 firft of the Train were two Aufim- 

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

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

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

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

 my Travels j the whole Company teftifying their defire to hear me make fome 

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

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

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

 in fliort how the Carmelites came by it. There was a Gentleman in Goa, whole 

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

 that built this Houfè, which might well have paft for a molt noble Palace. He 

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

 much frequented the Auftin^Frms, to whom he fhew'd himfelf fo affectionate, 

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

 bury him on the right-fide of the High-Altar, where he intended a fumptuous 

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

 which fome jealous perfons endeavour'd to make the World believe, feeing he had 

 given away all his Eftate to the Aufiin-Frhrs. Thereupon they told him that 

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

 Roy ; 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-Frtars them- 

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

 Gentleman,on purpofè to perfwade him to choofè fome other place in the Church, 

 he was fb offended at the propofal, that he never went more to the Aufiin-Frhrs, 

 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 interefted himfelf with that Order ; fo that the 

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

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

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I ftaid at Goa 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- 

 Ray. I begg'd leave alfo of the Vice-Roy for a JVwÂ-Gentleman, whofe name 

 was Belloy, to go along with me : which was granted me 5 but through the impru- 

 dence of that Gentleman, who did not tell me the reafon 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 carri'd to the Inquifition. This Gentleman had left the place of his 

 Nativity to travel over Holland, where having run himfelf in debt, and finding no 

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

 he lifted himfelf as a private Souldier upon the accompt of the Holland-Com- 

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

 the Portugueses in Ceylan. Being arriv'd, they fent him away among the recruits 

 which were fent into that Ifiand ; and the Holland-General feeing fuch a re- 

 inforcement of ftout men commanded by a Fra?c£-Captain, whofe name was 

 St. Amant, a perfon of great courage and experience } he refolv'd to befiege N e- 

 gombe, a considerable Fort in the Ifland of Ceylan. They made two afiaults, 

 Wherein the French-men behav'd themfèlves valiantly, efpecially St. Amant -, and 

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

 to be two fuch men of courage, made a promife that if Negombe 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 carri'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 Negombe J to the pre/udice of St, Amant* and came with an 



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