182 ROE 
“ The Tomb of the Mass,” in 8vo. By the last mentioned 
book the Catholics were so highly exasperated against him, 
that, in 1632, by their interest at court they obtained a royal 
decree, which banished him from the kingdom. Upon this 
he retired to Geneva, where he died about two years after¬ 
wards. Bayle. Moreri. 
RODONDA, a small island at the entrance of the har¬ 
bour of Rio Janeiro. 
RODONDESCA, a small town of Austrian Italy; 12 
miles west of Mantua. 
RODONI, a cape on the coast of Albania, in the Adriatic. 
Lat. 41. 55. N. long. 19. 16. E. 
RODOSTO, or Rodosdschig, a considerable town of 
European Turkey, in Romania, situated near the sea of 
Marmora, on the great road extending along the coast from 
Constantinople. It is fortified, and tolerably well built, 
with good streets, several good public buildings, and 16,000 
inhabitants. It has a good harbour, and a considerable 
trade, particularly in the export of com, wine, fish, and oil 
to Constantinople. It is the seat of a Greek archbishop; 
and is supposed to be the jB isanthe of Herodotus; 55 miles 
north-east of Gallipoli, and 68 west of Constantinople. Lat. 
40.58. 34. N. long. 27. 25. 16. E. 
RODOSTOPOS, a hamlet of European Turkey, in Alba¬ 
nia, about 12 miles north of Joannina. Its name signifies 
the “country or district of roses,” and although the neigh¬ 
bouring territory be unproductive, the varieties of prospect, 
the diffusion of verdure, and the picturesque aspect of 
the vicinity, make this spot much admired by travellers. 
RODRIGUES KEY, on the coast of Florida, a pretty 
large mangrove island, one of the Tortugas, lying off Key 
Largo, and bears from Tavernies’Key north-north-east-half- 
east 5 miles. The roots of the trees are always overflowed. 
Lat. 25. N. long. 81. 17. W. 
RODERIGUEZ (Alphonsus), a Spanish Jesuit in the 16th 
century, whose labours are. held in high estimation by the 
Catholic world, was born at Valladolid, in the year 1526. 
His celebrated work is entitled, “ Exercises of Perfection, 
and of the Christian Virtues,” in 3 vols. 4to.; it was trans¬ 
lated into French by the solitaries of Port-Royal, by the 
Abbe Desmaretz of the French Academy, and others, of 
whose versions a vast number of editions has been published, 
some in two, others in three volumes 4to. An abridgment of 
it has also appeared in French, by the Abbe Tricalet, in 2 
vols. 12mo. Translations of it have likewise been made into 
the Latin, Italian, German, Dutch, and other languages.— 
Ahtonii Bibt. Script. Hisp. Moreri. 
RODRIGUEZ, a river of New Granada, in the province 
of San Juan de los Llanos, which joins the Iscance to enter 
the Caqueta. 
RODSLEY, a hamlet of England, in Derbyshire; 5 miles 
south-by-east of Ashborne. 
RODSTOKE, or Radstoke, a parish of England, in 
Somersetshire; 7 miles north-west of Frome. Population 
£67. 
RODZ, a town of France, in Alsace. Population 2700. 
ROE, s. [pa, pa-beop, Saxon. And so ra, in old 
English: “Wight (nimble) as is a ra." Chaucer. Reve’s 
Tale.] A species of deer. 
He would him make 
The roe-bucks in their flight to overtake. Spenser. 
Thy greyhounds are fleeter than the roe. Shakspeare .— 
They were as swift as the roes upon the mountains. 1 Chr. 
—Procure me .a Troglodyte footman, who can catch a roe at 
his full speed. Arbuthnot and Pope. 
The roe-buck is called a hind the first year; gprle , the 
second; henuse, the third; roc-buck of the frst head, the 
fourth ; and a fair roe-buck , the fifth. 
The roe-buck is a deer well known in Germany; and 
seems to have also been formerly found in England, though 
now the race be extinct. 
ROE, s. old pi. roan, answering to roes. Skinner. 
[raun, Dan. rogen, Germ, ova piscium. Wachter.] The 
eggs of §sh. 
ROE 
Here comes Romeo 
Without his roe, like a dried herring. Shakspeare. 
ROE (Sir Thomas), a distinguished traveller and nego¬ 
tiator, was born about 1580, at Low Layton, in Essex. He 
was sent at an early age to Magdalen College, in Oxford, 
which he left without taking a degree, and passed some time 
at one of the inns of court, and also, it is supposed, in 
France. He was made an esquire of the body to Queen 
Elizabeth towards the close of her reign, and in 1604 was 
knighted by King James. We are not informed what pre¬ 
ceding studies or occupations caused him to be thought a fit 
person for maritime discoveries, but we are told that it was at 
the instigation of Henry Prince of Wales that he undertook 
an exploratory voyage to Guiana. Having fitted out a ship 
and pinnace at his own charge and that of his friends, he 
sailed, in 1609, for the river of Amazons, up which he pro¬ 
ceeded to the distance of 300 miles, landing in various 
places to examine the country. From its mouth he sailed 
along the coast to that of the Oroonoko, entering several of 
the intermediate rivers in canoes; and having spent thirteen 
months in a laborious survey of this part of the American 
continent, which he did not find so full of gold (the great 
object of search at that time) as was commonly supposed, he 
returned to England in 1611. The credit he acquired in 
this expedition caused him, at the desire of the East India 
company, to be sent, in 1614, as ambassador to Jehanguire, 
the Mogul Emperor, for the purpose of concluding a treaty 
of peace and commerce. He arrived at Surat in the autumn 
of that year, and resided at the Mogul court till the beginning 
of 1618. His conduct in this station did honour to himself 
and his country, and he made many curious observations on 
the court and people, of which, specimens were given in 
Purchas’s Pilgrims, and afterwards in Churchill’s Collection 
of Voyages. "On his departure thence, he visited the court of 
Schah Abbas, in Persia, with whom he made a treaty, by 
which the East India company obliged itself to assist him 
with a fleet for the purpose of expelling the Portuguese from 
Ormus, on condition of being allowed a free trade with 
Persia. 
After his return, Sir Thomas Roe was elected, in 1620, a 
representative in parliament for Cirercester; and in the fol¬ 
lowing year he was nominated ambassador to the Ottoman 
Porte, which post he occupied under the Sultans Osman, 
Mustapha, and Amurath IV. The services he rendered here 
to the political and commercial interests of his country were 
numerous and important, and few members of the diplomatic 
body have ever acquired more general respect and esteem. 
He was particularly serviceable to the Greek church, by pro¬ 
tecting it both from the oppressions of the Turkish ministers, 
and from the intrigues of the Jesuits and other bigots of the 
papal see. The gratitude he inspired on this account assisted 
him fti his collection of manuscripts in the Greek and 
Oriental languages, .which he presented to the Bodleian 
' library; and to him was entrusted the famous Alexandrine 
..manuscript of the Bible presented to Charles I., by Cyril, 
Patriarch of Constantinople. During his embassy, Sir Thomas 
drew up “ A true and faithful Relation of what hath lately 
happened at Constantinople, concerning the Death of Sultan 
Osman, and the setting up of MustaphS his Uncle; with a 
Continuation of the same Story,” printed in 1622, Lond. 4to. 
He also kept minutes of his negotiations at the Porte, which 
remained in manuscript till 1740, when they were published 
by the Society for promoting learning, under the title of 
“ The Negotiations of Sir Thomas Roe in his Embassy to the 
Ottoman Porte, from the Year 1621 to 1628 inclusive,” fol. 
Soon after his return from Constantinople, he was sent, in 
1629, to mediate a peace between Poland and Sweden. In 
this he succeeded so as to gain the confidence of the great 
Gustavus Adolphus, whom he encouraged in his design of 
an expedition into Germany. He was afterwards employed 
in negotiating a treaty with the King of Denmark, at Copen¬ 
hagen ; and he went a second time to that court, and also to 
those of several German Princes, and was present at the 
Congress of Hamburgh, and in its removals to Ratisbon and 
Vienna. 
