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his word and the law of nations. And if the said King should hinder the Fathers and 
not let them come, we judge that the State has, in such a case, no other obligation 
to effect their freedom than one of charity, if it can easily be done. This being the 
opinion of the said Fords, they have here signed on the tenth of November 1579. 
Done by Sebastiao Coelho, the said Ford Archbishop’s servant. 
This answer of the Prelates of India determined Dom Fuis de Ataide to 
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grant to the Father Provincial the permission, so urgently asked, of 
sending the Fathers to King Equebar. For the enterprise were appointed Father 
Rudolfo Aquaviva, a man of great learning and virtue; Father Antonio de Monser- 
rate, a person of singular prudence; and Father Francisco Enriques, born in the 
East, who, besides being a man of great edification, was well versed in Persian, the 
language spoken by the chief men of that Court. They left our [ 151 ] fortress of DamaS 
on the thirteenth of December of the same year. 
[ Follows a long account of the journey and a short narrative of the Mission.] 
7. Cf. Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1896, Jesuit Mission to the Emperor Akhar , by 
E. D. Maclagan, C.S., from notes recorded by the late General R. Maclagan, R.E., 
pp. 28—113. 
8. Cf. F. Goldie S.J., The First Christian Mission to the Great Moghul , Dublin, 
Gill, 1896. 
