Roman Church, which is what St. John no where faith, that ever I could fee; befides, we have in our Archives a Letter of St. Caius, Bishop of Rome, wherein he confeffeth that he had nothing to do with the Church of Babylon, no more than the Church of Babylon had to do with his Church. We have alfo another Letter, which is called in our Books the Letter of the Lord's-day, because it is faid upon that day to have fallen down from Heaven, wherein the fame Truth is affirmed. Here the Arch-Bishop run into a long difcourfe of the Primacy of St. Peter, and of the Pope's being his Succeffor, and Christ's Vicar upon Earth; after which they came at last to this Agreement, That as to matters of Faith, a Synod fhould be called to determine them; and that in the mean while the Arch-Bifhop might, if he pleased, give the Bleffing, and Preach in any of their Churches, but should not be received in them as their Prelate, but as a Bishop that was a Stranger, neither should he pretend to Confirm, or do any other Episcopal Act within that Diocefs. This Agreement was Signed by the Arch-Bishop and the Arch-Deacon, and all the Caçanares who were present, with a Declaration that the Synod fhould be Celebrated before Whitfuntide, and that the Arch-Deacon fhould no longer ftir up the People against him, nor go attended with fuch Troops of Armed Men as he had done formerly.

This Agreement being Signed, the Arch-BiShop fet Sail for Canhur, whither the Arch-Deacon went by Land, not daring to trust himself by

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Water, where he would have been in the Power of the Portuguezes.

At Canhur he was received very friendly by the Chriftians, who had been told by the ArchDeacon, that he did not pretend to come among them as their Prelate, but only as a Stranger, but tho' he kept to his Agreement fo far as not to of fer to do any thing but give the Bleffing and Preach, yet in his Sermon, which was a very long one, he talked fo much of the Roman Church, and its Supremacy, and of the obligation all Churches were under to fubmit to it, that the whole Congregation were much offended with him; the Arch-Deacon was likewife difcontented with it, and being Sick, or at least pretending he was, returned to Cheguree to be cured; and the Arch-Bishop having other work on his hands, was willing enough to difmifs him; who, in purfuance of the Inftruction he brought with him from Goa, was obliged to haften to Coulaon, a Fortress belonging to the Portuguezes, to fee in what condition it was, and to take fome courfe to have the Fort the King of Travancor was building in its Neighbourhood, and would much incommode it, demolished.

On the first of March he fet Sail for a Castle that is within two Leagues of Cochim, where the Governour and Bishop of the City met him, to whom having communicated his Defigns, he Sailed directly for Porcoa, where the King of the Country had been fome days expecting him; he went to a Church that was there in the Evening, where

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where he was kindly received by the Chriftians; the King, who profefled a great Friendthip for the Portuguezes, having Commanded them, upon pain of his displeasure, to comply with the ArchBishop in all things. After having Preached, he went to Lodge at the House of the Caçanar, whither the King came at Night to visit him; the Arch-Bishop entertained him very friendly, and thanked him for the kindness he had fhewed to the Chriftians of St. Thomas, and their Churches, and for having cleared his Coaft of Pyrates: the King, after fome Complements defired to be admitted to the Honour of being a Brother in Arms to the King of Portugal, as the King of Cochim had been: The Arch-Bishop told him, that was an Honour the King of Portugal never did to any King, before he had merited it by fome fignal Service; however, he promised to do all that lay in his Power to help him to it.

Next Morning the Arch-Bishap went to Church, where he faid Mass, and afterwards confirmed the whole Congregation, notwithstanding his late folemn Promife to the contrary, as indeed none but Fools will ever expect, that Papifts will obferve any fuch Promifes longer than the first opportunity they have to break them.

From Porcoa he failed directly to Coulaon, where, under pretence of vifiting a Church that ftood near the Fort the King of Travancor was building, he took a view of the Fort, and finding it was near finished, and would in a few days have a Garrison put in it, he immediately dif patched

patched away a Meffenger to the Captain General of the Fleet and Troops that were before Cunable, to come forthwith with his whole Armada to demolish the said Fort, which, if he came quickly, he might do with great ease, for that he would find none in it but Workmen.

Now you must know that the Arch-Bishop, when he was last at the Bar of Cunable, notwithstanding that the King of Travancor and the Portuguezes were at that time in Peace, had left a private Order with the General, that fo foon as he was Master of Cunable, he should fet Sail immediately with the whole Armada, and demolish this Fort, which, by reason of Cunable's not being yet taken, had not been executed.

But while the Arch-Bishop was expecting the Captain-General, he received the bad news of a great flaughter of Portuguezes in an Attack they had made upon Cunable, and that the CaptainGeneral was retired to Cochim to have his wounded Men cured; from whence he intended to come and wait upon him for further Orders.

The Arch-Bishop was extreamly troubled at this News, as well upon the account of the great numbers of Perfons of Quality that had been killed in the Action, as because he feared it would very much hearten the Kings of Malabar, who had till then still looked upon the Portuguezes as Invincible. Wherefore, to prevent the ill effects that the true News of this Defeat might have upon the Minds of the Princes of Malabar, he difpatched Letters immediately to all of them to acquaint

acquaint them with the great Victory the Portuguezes had obtained before Cunable; and tho' he acknowledged, that it was purchased with the Blood of feveral brave Men, among whom were fome of his own Kindred, who were very dear to him, yet he did not doubt but that they would infallibly carry the Place, at the next Attack they made.

These tricks of the Arch-Bishop coming fo thick, one upon the neck of another,for here we have no fewer than three of them in less than a Fortnight, puts me in mind of what Manuel de Faria faith of him in the 3d. Tome of his Asia Portuguesa, which I fhall give the Reader in his own words, "Efte illuftre Prelado eftuviera yo por ventura "en el numero de los fantos, fi no paffara a Efpanna a donde le quito efta gloria, en la "opinion mortal, la deficil del acierto en el "maneio de los grandes pueftos que vinoa ocupar, "o fueffen folicitudos, o fueffen ofrecidos. This Illuftrious Prelate, had he never returned to Spain, had, in all probability, been made a Saint before this time, where, thro' the difficulty there is in the managery of high Pofts, whether, offered to him or procured by Sollicitations, he loft all the Glory he had acquired in the Indies in the Opinion of the World.

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His High Pofts in Spain, which the Author faith he does not know whether he procured by Sollicitations or not, were the Primacy of Braga, and Viceroyship of Portugal, under Philip III. for two Years, and the Presidentship of the Council of

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