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that time Governor, and entertained according to their rank in 

 the college of St. Paul. And many of the noblest Zingalas of 

 Gandia, who followed in their train, after being instructed in 

 the doctrines of the faith, were received into it by baptism. 



As to the other prince of Gandia, also son of this tyrant — 

 if he is not the same we have just referred to, and many 

 conjecture to be that king of Gandia mentioned by Padre 

 Gonzaga in his History of the Franciscans, page 1208, who 

 was baptized about this time in the year 1540 ; for I do 

 not find another, nor was he more than the hereditary 

 prince, although he (Gonzaga) makes him out to be father-in- 

 law to King Don Juan Periampandar of Gey lan. who, accord- 

 ing to Diego de Couto's account, set free the Franciscan 

 monks imprisoned by his father, and who had converted him 

 to Christianity together with a great many other vassals. 



Threatened by the king, his father, who sought his life, and 

 had given over the inheritance of the kingdom to another 

 bastard son whom he greatly loved, he fled to the Uvd 

 mountains, where he declared war against his father, and 

 asked assistance from the Governor Jorge Cabral ; who 

 having previously sent Don Jorge de Menezes (whom they 

 called Baroche) to the relief of the King of Gota against 

 Madune, ordered him, when this expedition was over, to 

 march on Gandia and punish that barbarian for his treachery 

 against Antonio Moniz Barreto, and to aid the son and help 

 him in his plans. But the Candian, aware of his danger, 

 sent word to Don Jorge at Gota that he desired peace, and 

 wished to be reconciled to the prince, his son ; and as he 

 always made use of our religion as a cloak to his treachery, 

 he begged that some monks might be sent to baptize him. 

 Don Jorge-, in spite of our friend the King of GotcCs counsel, 

 and fully believing in all these lies, left for Gandia, sending 

 in advance, as an earnest of his resolve, a party of twelve 

 Portuguese under a Captain Frances ; and by these he brought 

 about the new conspiracy by which the Candian was preparing 

 to entrap Don Jorge. When about a league from Gandia they 

 showed him the way where he was to pass, and the barbarian 



