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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). 



[Vol. XX. 



BARROS AND COUTO. 



DECADE IV. 



1526-1536 a.d. 



[As the Barros-Lavanha Decade IV. and Couto's Decade IV. 

 cover the same period (though the former extends to 1539), 

 I have taken them together, except where one records events 

 not related by the other.] 



Portuguese Governors of India. — Lopo Vaz de Sampaio, 

 governor, February 1526 to November 1529 ; Nuno da 

 Cunha, governor, November 1529 to September 1538. 



Sinhalese Rulers in Ceylon. — Vijaya Bahu VII., 1505-34 

 (Dondra and Kotte) ; Dharma Parakrama Bahu IX., 1508-27 

 (Kotte); Bhuvaneka Bahu VII., 1534-51 (Kotte); Maya- 

 dunne, 1534-81 (?), Sitavaka). 



The only events connected with Ceylon recorded in this 

 Decade are the siege of the king of Kotte in 1528 (?) by his 

 brother Mayadunne, assisted by an armada from Calecut, the 

 siege being raised and the king relieved by the dispatch from 

 Cochin to Columbo of a Portuguese armada under the com- 

 mand of Martim Affonso de Mello Jusarte. 



Barros. 



Dec. IV., Bk. il, Chap. vii. 



Of some armadas that Lopo Vaz 1 dispatched, and how he 

 succoured the fortress of Ceilam, which was besieged, 

 sending to it Martim Afonso de Mello. 



The armada having been got ready, of eight large sail and 

 several rowing vessels, the captains of which were Antonio 

 Cardoso, Francisco Ferreira, Duarte Mendez de Vasconcellos . 



The governor Lopo Vaz de Sampaio. 



