Chap.XIX. Malabar and Coromandel. 
635 
Surrender 
of Cochin 
puties to capitulate upon the following 
Conditions. 
Articles of The FrcMctfcaKs to enjoy the free Ex- 
ercife of their Religion under the Pro- 
tedion of the States : The Clergy to have 
free liberty to carry away all their Ima- 
ges, Church-Ornaments, Relicks,6'c. and 
what elfe belong'd to them. The Go- 
vernour ^M^jf/o Sermento and his Family, 
together with all ihe Officers, to be re- 
ceiv'd civilly by the Dutch, The Garifon 
to march out with Enfigns difplay'd. 
Drums beating, with Bag and Baggage, 
and to be conduded in Dutch VelTels to 'VV^ 
Goa, except fuch of the Soldiers as^^*^^' 
were in immediate Pay of his Majefty, ^-^'YV 
who were to be tranfported to Portugal. 
Such of the Inhabitants as were willing 
to ftay behind under the Jurifdi^^ion of 
the Dutch Company, to have free liberty 
to remain in their full Pofleffions, and that 
care (hould be taken of the fick and 
wounded. All which was punftually 
perform'd, and the Keys of the City 
deliver'd to our General, who fooii 
after enterM viftorious on Horfe-back id 
TTzeEntt^iif y Butch (renerM into . Coch,im; ^i^^^ ^ ^^fl:^=S^MJ SEfl 
great Pomp, and orderM a folemn Thankf- 
giving to be made in the great Church 
lately belonging to the Jeluits, for the 
Conqueft of fo important a place, which 
was done accordingly, 
Otitrs gh Being thus become entirely Mailers of 
i/fn by the Cochin J after it h^d been 1 50 years in the 
Dutch Gc' pofleflion of the Portuguefes the Dutch 
mal. General made it his chiefeft care to ifluc 
his Orders not to moleft the Portuguefes^ 
but to obferve punctually the Articles of 
the Capitulation. The next was to dc- 
molifh a certain part of the Houfes and 
Churches of the City, in order to draw 
it into a more narrow compafs, and to 
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render the Fortifications the more regu» 
lar, the former requiring too great a 
number of Men to defend them. The 
King of Cochin being crown'd, and di- 
vers of the neighbouring petty Princes 
oblig'd to become his Tributaries, feveral 
ftrid Alliances were made with the neigh- 
bouring Kings to the South of the River 
of Cochin. 
About the fame time Jofe^h de Sanita A Roman 
Mdria^ of the Order of the Difialceated ^ijhop over 
Carmelites^ fent by the Pope in quality as 
a Bilhop among the Chriftians of St. T/jo-f^'^^ 
tnas^ came ( in his return into Europe ) to cochin, 
CWbm to falute our General, and was 
N n n n 1 Tery 
