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entereth not in by the door, &c. on which words he told them at length, That none were truc Paftors, but what entered in by the door of the Roman Church, and were fent by the Pope, who was Chrift's Vicar; which none of their former Prelates having been, who had been all fent to them by the Schifmatical Bishops of Babylon, they were all Thieves and Murderers of the Flock. When he had done his Sermon, he bid them come next day to the Church to be confirmed, which some did; to whom, after he had confirmed them, he told the news of Purgatory, a place most of them had never heard of before.

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All this while no Arch-Deacon appeared, who came not to Vaipicotta, till two days after the arrival of the Arch-Bishop. He had delayed his coming on purpose, that he might not by his prefence, feem to confent to any of thofe things, which he knew the Arch-Bishop would offer to do at that place.

Tho' the Arch-Bishop knew well enough what it was that had made the Arch-Deacon loiter fo behind, yet he diffembled fo far as to receive him very kindly, treating with him about the course he was to take in the reduction of the Church, who feemed to approve of every thing that was proposed to him.

The Arch-Bishop went daily to Matins and Vefpers, which were fung by thofe of the Seminary in Chaldee, but coming to understand at last, for he understood Chaldee no more than he did Malavar, that they prayed therein for the Patri

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arch of Babylon, ftiling him the Universal Paftor of the Church, a Title that all Patriarchs, as well as the Pope, have affumed to themselves for fome Hundred of Years (nay, by what Gregory I. has faid of that Title, I do not know but the Pope might be one of the last that affumed it) he refolved not to permit fo wicked a thing to be done any longer, notwithstanding all that the good Jefuites, who out of Policy had all along complyed with it, could say to diffwade him; and fo having one Evening, without communicating his defign to any one, called all the Jefuites, Malters of the Seminary, and the ArchDeacon, and his Caçanares, together at his Lodgings, having first made a Speech to them to prove, That the Pope was the only Head of the Church on Earth, and that the Bishop of Babylon was a Heretick and Schifmatick, he pulled out of his Pocket an Excommunication late fententie, commanding his Secretary to read it with an audible Voice, and his. Interpreter to declare it to those that did not understand Latin, in Malavar, by which he Commanded, That no Perfon Secular or Ecclefi aftick do from henceforward prefume to pray for the Patriarch of Babylon. He Commanded the Arch-Deacon and Caçinares to fign it, and finding the Arch-Deacon had a great mind to have shuffled it off, he faid to him, Sign it, Father, for it is full time the Axe were laid to the Root of the Tree; to which the Arch Deacon returned no anfwer, but Signed it without faying a word, as did all the other Caçanares, after which

it was fixed to the Gates of the Church.

The Christians of the Village, when they came to hear of what had been done, run, as if they had been Mad, in a Body to the Arch-Deacon's Lodgings, where, with one voice, they fet up a moft lamentable howl, crying out, That the Arch-Bishop of Goa, with his Portuguezes was come to deftroy their Religion, and had affronted their Patriarch, by whom they had been Governed for above 1200 Tears; and after having exclaimed against the Arch-Bishop at a most bitter rate, and bewailed their great Mifery, in having Strangers come among them to deftroy the Religion they had been born and bred in, they told their Caffanares, that if they would but give way to it, they would either Sacrifice their Lives in defence of their Religion, or be revenged on those that had affronted it.

But the Arch-Deacon having made a sign, that he defired to be heard, they all held their Peace, he told them, There was a time for all things, and that that was not a time for Revenge, but Diffimulation; that it was true he had Signed the Excommunication, but that he did it purely out of Fear, for they were to confider, that, befides the Strength the Arch-Bishop had brought along with him, he had engaged the King of Cochim, in whofe Country they were, to protect him in all he did, and who, if they fhould offer any affront to the Arch-Bishop, would certainly revenge it on their Lives and Eftates. As to himself, he was refolved to die in defence of the Religion of his Country, Sooner than consent to the

introduction of Popery; adding, The Portuguezes, if they liked their own Religion, might live in it, in God's Name, and he knew no Body that would trouble them for it; but that he saw no reason why they should thus difturb and perfecute People in their own Country, because they will not turn Papists, or change their old Religion for theirs, and that as to the Arch-Bishop, the thing that made him fo furious to deftroy the Authority of the Patriarch of Babylon ·was, that he might make himself Primate of the Indies; to which he hoped, none of the Chriftians of Malabar would ever confent, or would ever be perSwaded to forfake their old Religion for that of Popery. At this they all gave a great fhout, crying, They would lofe their Lives, and all they had in the World, before they would do it. But none of the forementioned Amoucos being among them, it's like, at that time they went no further.

The Portuguezes upon this uproar, did not forbear to blame the Arch-Bishop, for having published fuch an Excommunication, contrary to the advice of all that were about him, advising him to haften aboard his Galleys if he would fecure his Perfon; he told them, He was so far from repenting for what he had done, that were it to do again, he would do it, and that instead of retreating to Cochim, he would go next Morning to Paru.

Paru is the Metropolis of a Kingdom, wherein the noblest Body of all the Chriftians of St. Thomas lives, but withal, the most violent against Popery, as they had fufficiently manifested on feveral occafions;

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cafions; for tho' Don Jorge du Cruz, and Don Joan du Cruz, both Natives of the Country, had been fent by the Portuguezes to Rome in the time of Gregory XIII. who had done them great Honours there, and had granted them many Indulgences for their Churches, and withal, a Privileged Altar therein, yet their Countrymen did not only flight all thofe Indulgences, but would not fo much as fuffer them, tho' of two of the noblest Families in the Country, to officiate in any of their Churches, and at laft forc'd them to leave the Kingdom, their own Brethren and Kinsfolk, having the firft hand in their expulfion.

The Chriftians of Paru, tho' thus affected to the Roman Church, had, according to the forementioned Agreement, prepared great Festivities for the reception of the Arch-Bishop, hoping, by fuch Complements, to have kept him from doing any business; but, having the Night before he came, heard of what he had done at Vaipicotta to their Patriarch, they turned all their Feftivities into Arms, and were fo much incenfed against him, that when he Landed, he was met by eight or ten Perfons only that waited on the Arch-Deacon.

The Arch-Bishop, tho' he read trouble and dejection in all their Countenances, feemed to take no notice of it, but with his Crofs carried before him went directly to the Church, which, contrary to Custom, he found full of Armed Men, without fo much as one Woman or Child amongst

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