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By this act of treachery, which he did to save himself, " Don 

 John of Austria" re-established his dominion. For he 

 married Catalina, his queen and prisoner, mating her apos- 

 tatize before she became his queen, by which she became 

 incapable of holding the sceptre, and lost the right, if 

 she had any, during the life of her brother (who remained 

 faithful and true), by this offence against the Roman 

 Church, after having been a daughter of it and admitted into 

 her fold, and in whose defence, and to revenge the loss of so 

 many innocent lives, the Portuguese most justly undertook the 

 war for the conquest of Candia. His Catholic Majesty being 

 its true and legitimate sovereign by the Prince Don Juan's 

 {Catalina 's brother) surrender of his claims to His Majesty ; 

 and more especially because the Candians were the greatest 

 enemies of our Holy Faith in the whole Island. Their 

 princes, no more slaves nor barbarians, but educated and 

 converted, had so often apostatized, demolished churches, and 

 killed the priests who had anything to do with their conver- 

 sion and teaching, and violated with their arms every law of 

 hospitality and friendship which they had contracted and 

 sworn to adhere to by so many solemn oaths and inviolable 

 treaties, which should be sacred to all nations. 



Bound by so many reasons, our princes continued the war 

 with varied success all the time of the tyrannical reign of the 

 rebel Don John, who was a mortal enemy to our nation and 

 who enjoyed the fruits of his tyranny for four years. After 

 the death of Pedro Lopez he gained a great victory over the 

 General de Jeronimo de Azevedo : and his successes not- 

 ending there, his arms became almost invincible, and over- 

 shadowed our fame. 



He gave admittance to the Hollanders in the year 1601. 

 Admiral Jorge Spilbergen having arrived in the port of 

 Batecalou with three ships, he invited him up to Candia and 

 received him with acclamation, and publicly entertained him, 

 giving him land and marking out a site whereon to build a 

 factory, out of hatred to the Portuguese and out of compliment 

 to (Prince) Maurice (from whom he had a letter), and out of 



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