came about; in confidence of which Protection and Affiftance it was that he left Goa to come into thofe Parts, but that he had found himself miferably deceived, there not being a Prince in Malabar, in whofe Dominions he had been (and he had been in the most of them) but what had shewed him more favour than His Highness, who had loaded fome of his Christian Subjects with Taxes, for no other reafon, but for having given him a kind Reception. Here the chief Regedor interpofed, 'and defired him to let His Majesty know what the Affronts or Injuries were that he had received in any part of his Dominions. The Arch-Bishop replied with great paflion, Sir, There is no Body knows them all better than you do, fince they were done before your Eyes; however, you were pleased to wink at them; nay, I do not know but you might have a hand in procuring them; and therefore pray do not you offer to conceal them from your Mafter. The King protested he had never heard of any Injury or Affront that had been put upon His Lordship in any part of his Territories. The Arch-Bishop, without any Ceremony, told him, It was not fo, for that he himself had acquainted His Highness feveral times by Letter, of what he suffered from his Subjects, but could never have them remedied as he expected, and as they ought to have been by one that owed So much to the Portugueze as His Highnefs did, wherefore, faid he, for the future I'll complain of none but my own King, for having fent me from a Palace at Goa, where I lived at my ease and in splendor, to wander

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about the Serra, and be abused as I have been. This does not agree very well with what is faid before of his going into the Serra purely out of Zeal and Devotion, and contrary to all that the Viceroy and others could fay or do to hinder him 5 but upon his upbraiding the King with his not having answered his expectations, nor the obligations which he owed to the Portuguezes, who, of a petty Prince, had made him a great Monarch; the King ask'd him, as well he might, what his Lordship meant, defiring him to instance in what particulars he had been thus aggrieved; whereupon. the Arch-Bishop told him of what had been done at Molandurte and Diamper, and charged him with having encouraged the Arch-Deacon in his Rebellion, to whom he had granted feveral Ollas or Provifions, without having granted him one as yet. The King told him he would treat with the Governour of Cochim about an Olla for his Lordship. This put the Arch-Bishop in a much greater paffion than he was in before: for he reckoned the King flighted him, in saying he would treat with the Governour about a thing that was his immediate concern; whereupon he told his Majefty, That it had been always his custom to put him off with delays, that for his own part he defired none of his Ollas; and that the Chriftians of St. Thomas, if they had been true Chriftians, would never have fuffered their Kings to have meddled with matters of Religion; but especially being Infidels and Idolaters, as he was, and who not knowing the true God, Worshipp'd Stocks and Stones, and Devils infread

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ftead of him: That for his part he could not but wonder at His Highness's taking upon him to favour the Patriarch of Babylon against the Pope, who underflood nothing of the difference between them; That His Highness would do well therefore to leave his Chriftian Subjects to him, who was their true Prelate, and not to meddle with matters he did not understand: That as for the Arch-Deacon he had determined that if he did not come and Submit to him by next Saturday, to turn him out of his place, and put another into it, and that he could not but look upon the Arch-Deacon as an ill Christian, if for no other reafon, for that of having communicated the Affairs of Chriftianity to His Highness, whom all the World know to be an Infidel. The King was defperately angry at what the ArchBishop had faid of his Idols; however being a very wife Prince he did not touch upon that string, but told him, His Lordship might expect the Arch-Deacon one Saturday, two Saturdays, and three Saturdays. The Arch Bishop took the words out of his Mouth, and striking his Cane against the Ground in great Fury, faid, I will not expect him one, two, and three Saturdays, but if I live I will depofe him if he does not come and fubmit before the next, and that he deferved to be Depofed, if for no other reason, for his having interested His Highnefs in the concerns of Chriftianity, notwithstanding he knew him to be an Infidel. The King, who could not help ftanding amazed at the ArchBishop condemning the Arch-Deacon so much for endeavouring to intereft him in a thing which

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he himself at the fame time was fwaggering him into, perceiving that the more they talked, the Arch-Bishop grew the more furious, and talked. the louder, put on a pleasant Countenance, and told him with great fweetness, That there was nothing he had ever studied so much as to please His Lordship. With this the Arch Bishop's Paflion being fomething mitigated, he replied, It was what he had always expected from His Highness, and that he hoped he would not wonder to fee him put into fo great a Paffion, in a cafe wherein Christianity was So much concerned, for the least of whofe Intereft he was bound in duty to facrifice his Head. The King told him, That if he knew of any that fought after. his Head, they should not keep their own long upon their Shoulders. After they had made an end of this hot business, they talked for some time of indifferent matters; and when the King was for going, the Arch-Bishop accompanied him to the Caiz, where they are faid to have parted very good Friends; which if they did, the King confidering how he had been treated, was certainly the best natured Prince that ever wore a Crown, and in a very fubftantial point a much better Christian than the Arch-Bishop.

This rancounter was of no fmall advantage to the Arch-Bishop in the reduction of that Chriftianity; for the King fearing to provoke one of the Arch-Bishop's Character and Temper, fo foon as he had left him, writ away immediately to the Arch-Deacon to come and fubmit himself to the Arch-Bishop, he writ alfo to the King of Mangate,

in cafe he found the Arch-Deacon not willing to do it, to oblige him to it.

Upon the receipt of this Letter the Arch-Deacon fent away immediately to the Arch-Bishop, to let him know, That he was ready to throw himfelf at his Grace's Feet, and to obey all his Commands, and that within the time he had prefixed; but withal, defired to wait upon him fome where elfe than in Cranganor, which being a Fortress belonging to the Portuguezes, he was afraid to truft himself in, there being nothing that he dreaded fo much as being fome time or other kidnapped for Goa. However the Arch-Bishop complyed fo far with his Fears as to order him to meet him at the Jefuites-College in Vaipicotta. They met first in the Church, where the Arch-. Deacon threw himself at the Arch-Bishop's Feet, with the words of the Prodigal in his mouth, Father, I have finned against Heaven, and against thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy Son. I do burably beg Pardon for all my Errors, which have been great. The Arch-Bishop lifting him up and embracing him tenderly, told him, all that was paft was forgot; and that God's Mercy in reducing him to the Catholick Church was greater than the Malice of the Devil, which had been the caufe of his returning no fooner, that he would certainly have that great Reward that is referved in Heaven for thofe that bring fo many Souls to the purity of the Faith, as he was confident he would do by his Example; that he would therefore have him fubfcribe the Profeffion of