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centuries. It has been told above 1 how in 1580 Raja Sinha 

 conquered Kandy and forced the king then reigning to flee, 

 and to seek the protection of the Portuguese at Mannar. 

 From this island he and his queen, his two sons and their 

 wives and children appear to have been sent to Trine omalee , 

 where the king died shortly afterwards, the other royal refu- 

 gees being thereupon brought back to Mannar 2 . Here the 

 younger son and his wife, it would seem, died within a short 

 space of time, leaving a young daughter 3 , of whom we shall 

 hear more hereafter. The elder son, with his son, a boy of 

 seven or eight years of age, was taken by the Franciscans to 

 Goa to seek the favour of the viceroy, and becoming converts to 

 Christianity were baptized by the names of Dom Filippe and 

 Dom Joao respectively. This took place probably in 1586 4 , 

 and the two princes were accorded a suitable residence in Goa, 

 Dom Filippe being granted a pension for his sustenance 6 . 

 There we must leave them for a moment, in order to turn to 

 another personage who was destined to play the most important 

 part in the history of Ceylon at the end of the sixteenth and 

 beginning of the seventeenth centuries. 



We have seen above 6 that among the Sinhalese who fled 

 from the tyranny of Raja Sinha to Columbo and took part in 

 the defence of the city during its siege was a young noble 

 named Konappu Barklara, who, professing Christianity, had 

 received the name of Dom Joao d' Austria. Not long after the 



1 See pp. 258-9. 



2 See Gol. de Trat. i. 226. 



3 Gf. Rdjdv. 89. 



4 The Hist. Seraf., which records these facts, says (iii. 541) that they 

 took place in 1588 : but, as we have seen above (p. 367), Dom 

 Filippe accompanied Manoel de Sousa Coutinho in his expedition to 

 Ceylon in February 1588, so that it seems certain that the prince had 

 come to Goa some time before. The baptisms also must have taken 

 place not later than 1586 : for in a letter of 28 January 1588 (Arch. 

 Port.-Or. iii. 126) the king of Spain refers to the " prince of Candia " 

 by the name of " Dom Filipe." Linschoten refers to the prince (not 

 by name), but does not say when he came to Goa (see Linsch. i. 78). 

 Pyrard also mentions him, but confuses him with Dom Joao d' Austria 

 (see Pyr. ii. 144). 



5 See Arch. Port.-Or. iii. 187, 203. 



6 Page 294, note 5 . 



