often with Kings, and knew their Tempers too well to be made believe, that they would not fee themselves obeyed when they had a mind to it.

The Regedor aflured him a fecond time, that his Mafter always had, and always would favour his defigns in the Serra, I fhall quickly know that, faid the Arch-Bishop, for if you be fincere, you will prefently call all the Chriftians together, and Command them, in the King's Name to acknowledge me as their Prelate, and to unite themselves to the Church of Rome. The Regedor promised to do it presently, and having called all the Christians together, commanded them before the Arch-Bishop on pain of the King's high displeasure, to obey the Arch-Bishop in all things, affuring them withal, that this was His Majefty's Will, and therefore they should give no credit to any that should whisper the contrary to them; and thus, by Hectoring and Bribing of Kings and their Regedores, the Arch-Bishop made both fudden and great Converfions.

Having difmiffed the Regedor, the Arch-Bishop gave them a Sermon, and commanded them to come to Church next Morning to be confirmed by him. Next day after the Confirmation, he told them, That he had Excommunicated and Depofed the Arch-Deacon, as a Rebel to the Pope, who is Christ's Vicar on Earth; and that he told them of it on purpose that they might have no more Communication with fuch a Rebel, but might acknowledge him for their Prelate. The People

feemed to be fatisfied with what he had done,

and

and to blame the Arch-Deacon for his obftinacy. In the Evening he vifited the Sick, and gave large Alms to the Widows and Orphans of the Town, telling them withal, that what he did was their Prelate's duty, and not to take Money from them as their former Bishops had done; but he forgot to tell them, that whereas their former Prelates had lived altogether upon Alms, having no fettled Revenues to maintain them, by reafon of their living under Princes who were Infidels, that he had above 20000 Crowns a Year in Rents that were certain. Befides, by having represented what he was doing in the Serra, as a great Service to the Crown, he had the Command of the Publick Treasure at Goa, which was never fo great as at this time; the Viceroy Don Matthias de Albuquerque having in the Year 1597 left 80000 Ducats, and an immenfe Summ in Jewels therein.

This Trick, for it deferves no better Name, together with his Hectoring of Kings and their Regedores as he did, made a great many People with themselves under Portugueze Prelates, who, they faw, would not fuffer their Princes to Tyrannize over them, but would efpoufe all their Quarrels, and defend them in their Rights, which was what the Chaldean Prelates were not able to do.

The Arch Bishop now having by the forefaid Methods brought three fuch confiderable places, as Carturte, Molandurte, and Diamper, befides feveral fmall Villages, under his Obedience; and

being also sure of all the Churches that are in the Kingdom of Porca, Gundara, Marca, and Batimena, whofe Kings had already Commanded all their Subjects to obey him in every thing: The ArchDeacon hearing how things went, began to be fenfible, that it would not be poffible for him to contend with fo powerful an Adversary much longer; and that he must therefore, either fubmit or be sent a Prifoner to Portugal, the ArchBishop having fo blocked the Serra up to prevent a Chaldean Bishop's coming thither, that it was not poffible for him to make his escape, if he had a mind to run his Country rather than renounce his Religion.

The Arch-Bishop being informed by a Caçanar, that the Arch-Deacon was in great perplexity what he had beft to do, writ him a long Letter, wherein among other things he cited him to appear before the Judgment-feat of God, to answer for the Souls that were now burning in Hell, by his having kept them from being reconciled to the Roman Church, out of which there is no Salvation. To which Letter the Arch-Deacon returned an answer in a strain quite different from what he had writ in formerly.

Before this Letter came to his hand, the ArchBishop having done his work at Diamper, was failed to Narame, a confiderable Village of Chriftians, which he found all in Arms, having all bound themselves with an Oath never to for fake their Religion and Arch-Deacon, but to defend them with the last drop of their Blood; and fo

when

when the Arch-Bishop was ready to Land to go to Church, they called to him to stay where he was; for befides that, the Church doors were fhut, there was not one Perfon among them, who would have any Communication with him. Whereupon the Arch-Bishop, according to his Custom, fent immediately to the Regedor of the Country, which also belonged to the King of Cochim to come aboard, for that he had fomething to fay to him.

What made the Arch-Bishop, making fuch great ufe of Kings and Regedores, who were all Infidels in the Converfion of these Christians to the Roman Church, the more unpardonable, was, that but a little before he had made the ArchDeacon's interefting of Infidel Princes in the Affairs of Christianity, with which they were not to be fuffered to meddle, the chief Article for which he deserved to be depofed.

The Regedor being come aboard, the ArchBishop fpoke to him to go afhoar, and do as much for him at Narame, as the chief Regedor had done at Molandurte and Diamper. The Regedor promised him he would, but when he came afhoar to cause the Church to be opened, there was no body left in the Town; for the Chriftians hearing of his coming, and what his bufinefs was, had all hid themselves, that fo they might not be constrained to break the Oath they had made fo lately. The Arch-Bishop, when the Regedor brought him word how it was, was in a great Paffion with him, and would not be perfwaded

fwaded but that he had underhand fomented this divifion. But however these Chriftians came to be incenfed against the Arch-Bishop, it is certain they were to that degree, that they denied him fresh Provifions for his Money, fo that he was forc'd to live upon the Rice and Bisket that was aboard for fome days.

While the Arch-Bishop was in this Diet, the Arch-Deacon's Letter came to his hand, the fubstance whereof was, That he was overcome at laft by the irrefiftable force of Truth, and was refolved to Submit himself to the Roman Church, intreating his Grace to pardon all the by past Errors of an ignorant Son.

The Arch-Bishop tho' he was extream glad at the news, would not discover that he was, but told the Caçanar that brought it very gravely, That he had been fo often deceived by the ArchDeacon, that he did not know how to trust him, and that he never would any more, before he had fubfcribed the Ten following Articles.

I. That he abjured all the Errors of Neftorius, and of all his Followers, Diodorus and Theodorus (who, by the way, were both in their Graves before Neftorius was ever heard of) acknowledging them to be cursed Hereticks, that are burning in Hell for their Errors.

II. That he should confefs there was but one Christian Law.

III. That