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A40439	The life of Dom John de Castro, the fourth vice-roy of India wherein are seen the Portuguese's voyages to the East-Indies, their discoveries and conquests there, the form of government, commerce, and discipline of warr in the east, and the topography of all India and China : containing also a particular relation of the most famous siege of Dio, with a map to illustrate it / by Jacinto Freire de Andrada, written in Portuguese ; and by Sr Peter Wyche, Kt., translated into English.; Vida de Dom João de Castro, quarto viso-rey da India. English	Freire de Andrade, Jacinto, 1597-1657.; Wyche, Peter, Sir, 1628-1699?	1663 (1663)	Wing F2155; ESTC R7129	235,174	319

this and other Virtues the Governour as the Moors affirm was always assisted by some Divine power for on the top of the Church they saw a Virgin whose brightness they were not able to behold at whose sight their hearts fail'd on which they quitted their Arms some out of fear others out of reverence This favour from Heaven is not above belief if we consider the justice of the Cause and piety of the General There Dy'd of the Moors five thousand amongst them were Rumecaon Alucaon Accedecaon and other Turks of Name the Prisoners were six hundred who afterwards honour'd the Triumph we lost of Ours thirty the Wounded were neer three hundred 29. The Governour had but few days rest in the repose of Victory being immediately seis'd on by the Anxious care of Re-building rather founding the Fortress from the first Foundation a Work for the Necessity of it indispensable for our Straights impossible for the expences of so long a Warr had drain'd the States Revenues so pawn'd besides as only to be redeem'd by a Peace of long continuance yet the Governour not Disheartned by these difficulties went about beginning the new Fabrick with a new design for in the judgment of the Skilfull 't was requisite to enlarge the Situation to make the Walls thicker the Bastions nearer to Build Magazins in a dry place for the keeping Ammunition and Provision that it might be preserv'd well conditioned which it had not been formerly but by the moistness of the Soil corrupted Materials could not be bought or brought without pay or wages Stone-cutters Pioneers and Work-men ask't satisfaction for their Labour The Governour had neither Plate or Jewels to serve his occasions so as to be forc't to try other Pawns Valuable by his honour not their own nature He commanded the Bones of his Son Dom Fernando to be ta'ne up to send 'em in an unheard of Pawn to the City of Goa but the Earth having not quite corrupted the Body he cut off some hairs of his own Beard on which he ask't twenty thousand Pardaos of the Chamber of Goa his affection for his Country finding him out a strange way never light upon by those Loyal Decios Curtios and Fabios of whom Rome yet proud preserves their Memory in the Ruins of her Empire The pawn was accompany'd by this following Letter A Letter writ from Dio by the Governour Dom Iohn de Castro to the City of Goa GEntlemen Magistrates Iudges and People of the most Honourable and always Loyal City of Goa I writ to you some days since by Simaon Alvarez one of your Citizens the news of the Victory God gave me against the Commanders of the King of Cambaya and that you might without any allay enjoy the pleasure and satisfaction of the Victory I spoke not in my Letter of the great streights and necessities I was in but now I think fit no longer to dissemble and to give you an account of the urgencies which are upon me and to desire your assistance to supply and remedy things of so great moment as are now in my hands for the Fortress of Dio is so beaten down to the ground as not one foot of the Wall can serve again so as 't is not only necessary this Summer to Build it up again but with such Skil and in such a form as the King of Cambaya may lose his hopes of being at any time able to take it To this trouble is added an other as great or greater to me incomparably above all others which is the trouble and perplexity the Lasquerins put me to for their Pay which I have secur'd to 'em else would they be all gone and I should be left alone in the Fortress which would put me into no little danger and consequently all India for the Commanders of the King of Cambaya with those men who are left of the Defeat quarter at Suna two Leagues from this Fortress and the King every day sends 'em Horse and Foot to increase their Camp as if they would return and try their fortune by giving an other Battail wherefore I am in great want of a considerable sum of Money and because it concerns the service of our Lord the King and complies with your Honour and Loyalty I earnestly begg of you to remember your old Custom and great Generosity which oblig'd you as good and Loyal Subjects always to relieve the urgent necessities of his Majesty and for the great and intimate affection I have for you all you would lend me twenty thousand Pardaos which as a Gentleman I promise and on the Holy Gospel swear before a years end to see you Repaid though I should be set upon by greater necessities and extremities then those by which I am at present environ'd I commanded the taking up my Son Dom Fernando whom the Moors kill'd in this Fortress fighting for God and our Lord the King to pawn to you his Bones but they were found so as 't was not fit to take 'em out of the ground by which I am without any other Pawn but part of my Beard which I hear send you by Diogo Rodriguez de Azevedo for as you know I have neither Gold Plate House-hold-stuff or any thing of Value to secure your Estate only a plain and naked truth given me by God Almighty But that you may more certainly rely on your Payment and it may not be thought by some that what hath at other times fallen out some intervening accident may keep you from it I here send you an order for the Treasurer of Goa to be paying you out of the Tax for the Horse engaging all can be made of it till you are re-imburst for the manner of the paying it you are to fix it with him Excuse me for not affecting words to heighten to you my extremities being from what I have said before firmly perswaded that you will in this Conjuncture do what you can and above your abilities without any other mediation then your accustomed Nobleness and our reciprocal Affection I recommend my self Gentlemen to your Goodness Dated at Dio the twenty third of November Year 1546. 30. Upon the Messengers arrival at Goa the people furnish't him with more then he demanded seeing they had a Governour so little proud as to ask so great as to defend 'em they return'd him those honourable Pawns which are at present preserv'd in the hands of the Bishop Inquisitor General his most deserving Grandchild who put 'em in an Urn or Pyramid of Crystal set in a Basis of Silver on which are Engraven several Disticks which make an ingenious Memory of so famous an Action this honourable Relique remaining with his Posterity to make Hereditary the virtues of Dom Iohn de Castro With the Money was carry'd the following Letter The Chamber of Goa's Letter in answer to the Governours MOst Illustrious and Excellent Captain General and Governour of India for the High and Mighty and most

according to his capacity judged of the patience of the Siege and resolution of the Battail The common people were endless in the praises of Dom Iohn de Castro as men without envy for persons or fortunes above 'em the Gentlemen and great Ones abetted or consented to the universal Acclamations an unusual virtue to be able to endure the fame of Peers and there was not one so ambitious who coveted for himself a greater Name or more illustrious Atchievements 94. The King and Court put on their Robes and appointed a day to give God thanks in the Chapel with Pious and Royal offerings there was a Learn'd Sermon in which were set forth the Praises and Virtues of the Governour The King acquainted the Pope and the greatest Princes of Europe with the Victory who all gave him joy as for the most famous Action of the East Dom Iohn de Castro in his Letter to the King desir'd leave to return to the Kingdome shewing how little Sollicitous he was of Dignities who left the greatest and that a total neglect might not be branded as a new ambition begg'd of the King two Acres of ground which joyn to his Country-house at Sintra and end in a little Hill which to this day is call'd Monte das Alvicaras The King in the honours conferr'd on him seem'd to consider his Services and in his Reward respected his Fortune all which is seen by his Letter of which we here give you a Copy The King Dom John the Third's Letter 95. VIce-King and Friend I the King heartily salute you The Victory God gave you against the Officers of the King of Cambaya was of as eminent satisfaction to us as 't is fit we should have for such and so great a Conquest and for so great mercies and favours as you in it receiv'd from our Lord for which he is to be ever prais'd there is also much due to the Prudence and great Courage you shew'd in that day as to what you did in the great and speedy Relief you sent to the Fortress of Dio exposing in so extravagant a Season your Sons to Sea by which is seen how much more predominant our Service is with you then the natural affection of a Father which we value as 't is reason we should seeing you not only Routed so great Forces of the Enemies but secur'd all India ●y the great apprehensions our Enemies have of so signal a Victory which service there is as much reason we should Rank as it deserves as we should have for it the requisite satisfaction we had no little discontent for the Death of your Son Dom Fernando both as he was your Son and as he gave proofs in that Age what he would have been in all his Life after and since he Dy'd so honourably and in so eminent service for God and us you ought less to resent his loss and give God thanks he was pleas'd he should so Dye as we know you did shewing by your forgetting the Death of your Son your remembring what was suitable for our Service of which things we shall always be so mindfull as not only to impute 'em to you by our great satisfaction for 'em but by our special grace which is now to have a beginning in the rewards we conferr on you and your Son Dom Alvaro reserving the compleating of 'em for the end of your Service which we are confident and take for granted will be such as that hath been you have already rendered us and in the confidence and experience we have of it though very much desiring at present to comply with you in all things yet considering how much it is for our Service and seeing by your Actions how much more you prise that then all other business of your own we have thought good not to give you leave to return as you desir'd of us and for that purpose recommend to and command you to receive it well and that you will serve us in that Charge other three years at the end of which we will in God's name send you leave to return and we hope he will inable you so to do yet though it be so much for the advantage of our Service that you should continue serving us for that time in those parts if you think your return necessary we should be glad of your writing to us and expecting our answer Pero de Alcacova Carneiro writ it in Lisbone the 20 th of October 1547. The King I believe the Queen Dona Katherine's Letter requires our no less attention where the Subscription is not only Royal but also the Discourse giving judgment on the Actions of the Victory with the Prudence of a Man and Gallantry of a Souldier The Queen Dona Katherine's Letter 96. VIce-King I the Queen heartily salute you I have read your Letter in which you give us a particular account of what you have done and ordered in all those things you thought to be for the service of our Lord the King and for the defence and security of those Parts and that all was so conformable to what you are and to the opinion his Majesty hath of you we have as much satisfaction as 't is reasonable both to see his Majesty is so well serv'd by you and for the signal honour you have purchas'd As to the great care and diligence you upon your Arrival employ'd in the repairing and providing the Fleet 't was a great beginning and of absolute necessity for the remedying so weighty affairs as afterwards presented and we are assur'd how great soever the pains you took in it were your content of having been so well employ'd will be greater you aim'd right in the Warr you made upon Hidalcaon because by that was clearly seen the contrary to what you say is there the receiv'd opinion that he could receive no harm by a Warr with the Portuguese which must be the reason he so often begun it nor have any benefit by Peace with 'em which made him not care to break it and if he knew who you were and how much more prevalent honour then profit is with you he would not have made you the offer he did about Meale but the little impression it had on you and your evident undeceiving him will make him know it As to the business of the Siege and Warr of the Fortress of Dio the mercy of our Lord God was eminent in the Victory he there gave you against so great Force and numbers of the Enemies of his holy Catholick faith as were there from so remote Parts met together and 't is an evident sign of his own Arms upholding the State in those Countries and for all we give him the praises as are reasonable and we acknowledge to be due and it much adds to the great satisfaction our Lord the King and We have for so great a Victory to see with what prudence and conduct you provided all things necessary for the obtaining it

D. IOAO DE CASTRO THE FOVRTH VICEROY OF INDIA W. Faithorne sculp THE LIFE OF DOM JOHN DE CASTRO The Fourth Vice-Roy of INDIA Wherein are seen the Portuguese's Voyages to the East-Indies Their Discoveries and Conquests there The form of Government Commerce and Discipline of Warr in the East and the Topography of all India and China Containing also a particular relation of the most famous siege of DIO With a Map to Illustrate it BY IACINTO FREIRE DE ANDRADA Written in PORTUGUESE AND By Sr PETER WYCHE Kt. Translated into English 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesio. London Printed for Henry Herringman and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Anchor on the Lower walk in the New Exchange 1664. TO THE QUEENS Most Excellent Majesty May it please your Majesty EVery Man's way of paying his Reverence and Devotion being particularly his own and as peculiar as any thing he derives from his Temper and the Splendor of Your Majesties Vertues and Perfections of which to name any first were to fail in Ceremony to the rest being as Glorious and Unquestionable as Light in the Sun who daily Prodigal of his Benign Aspects is yet above being the Theame and Subject of Praises I have thought it suitable to my Zeal and first Imployment had in Portugall to tell my Fellow-Subjects in plain English the Greatness and Glory of that Crown and Kingdome which are Contractedly drawn in the Life of one particular Portuguese since the Ministers Actions have their Spring in the King's Instructions and the Prince's Zeal makes the Subjects Apostles And now Madam the Praises of your Native Country will come with Advantage to the Eyes and Ears of the English since your Majesty so Endear'd before as to make them Hope in Despair and Joyn such is the Miracle of your Goodness in one Form of Common-Prayer for your Happy Recovery when so many thousands so Sacrifize to their own Opinions as to be willing with their Lives and Fortunes to pay for their Non-conformity will be now look't upon as the Queen of every particular Man's choice The Life of the great Portuguese Dom Iohn de Castro Dedicated in the Original to Prince Theodosius of Happy Memory Your Royal Brother hath Suggested the presumption of Begging for the Translation your Sacred and Auspitious Patronage which only in so Censorious an Age can protect in Print and in Safety Madam Your Majesties most Loyal Subject and most Dutifull Servant PETER WYCHE THE Authors Dedication To Prince THE ODOSIUS Of Happy Memory Who was Heir of Portugall and Eldest Brother to Our Most Excellent Queen KATHERINE Most Serene SIR THE Scipios have met with their match in their Actions not in their Fortune There were in Darius's for Dom John de Castro to Conquer in Europe not a Curtius or Livy to propagate his Fame The Bishop Dom Francisco de Castro perswaded me to write this History which the Press now publisheth though in a Style inferiour to the deserts of a Man who came to be Great amongst the Greatest whose Vertues blossom'd so soon that they seem'd rather Hereditary then Acquir'd He Liv'd not out the Years of his Government in which almost the same Numbers stood for Days and Victories though he was long Liv'd to his Country short to Nature Yet now his Memory is under your Highness's Protection 't is a question if he were Happier in his Life or Posterity being always a Conquerour then over his Enemies now over Time I might here take an occasion to publish your Highness's Vertues but an Epistle is too short as the Book would have been for such a Subject The general Cry of the World is to be the Book where all shall read them in a more impartial Character since our Hopes are that your Highness uniting to the Pleasantness of Study the Glory of Arms will for Fame and Courage be the first on the File amongst our Portuguese Princes God preserve the most Serene Person of your Highness Lisbone 15 th of March 1651. Jacinto Freire de Andrada THE PREFACE 1. POrtugall given by Alphonsus the sixth King of Castile after a signal Victory obtained against the Mahometans Anno 1089. in Dowry with his Daughter Therasia to Count Henry Grand-child to Robert Duke of Burgundy in Recompence of his extraordinary though but personal assistance in the Battail and to have there so considerable a Strength where the incursions of the Moors were most frequent and terrible hath been maintain'd enlarg'd at home and abroad and recovered by Courage and Policy not below those Deserts which got so unusual a Match and Portion for a Stranger 2. Count Henry took Viseu and Lamego from the Moors yet left Portugall with Neighbouring Frontiers for Southward it was bounded with the River Mondego infested with the Invasions of the Infidels Northward with the River Minho towards the Rising Sun it had the Province Beira and towards the Setting on the Sea-side the City Porto which being the only Port unpossess't by the Moors and chiefly frequented by the French seems more reasonably then some other Etymologies to give the name to the Kingdome of Portugall 3. Alphonsus Henriques Son to Count Henry as the fatal greatness of Rome made its first King Romulus a Souldier was not second to any in Story in Courage and Action He defeated Albucaran King of Badajos and took the City raised the Siege of Coimbra besieged by King Eujunius with three hundred thousand men In the year 1139. at the Battail of Orique where impartial and concurrent Histories count an hundred Moors for every Christian he overcame Ismarus and four more Mahometan Kings on which he was as some affirm after the Fight saluted King by his own Souldiers from that Action also the Virgil of Portugall Luis de Camoens in the 53. and 54. Stanzas of his third Canto derives the bearing of the Arms of the Kingdome which are five small shields Azure in a great shield Argent left plain by his Father 53. Aqui pinta no branco escudo ufano Que agora esta vitoria certifica Cinco escudos azues esclarecidos Em sinal destes cinco Reys vencidos 54. En estes cinco escudos pinta os trinta Dinheyros porque Deos fora vendido Escrevendo a memoria em varia tinta Da quelle de quem foy favorecido Em cado hum dos cinco cinco pinta Por que assi fica o numero comprido Contando duas vezes o do meyo Dos cinco azues que em Cruz pintando veyo Which the Right Honourable Sir Richard Fanshaw late Embassadour to Portugal in his Excellent Translation of that Heroique Poem thus renders 53. In his broad Shield which he till then wore plain A badge eternal of this glorious day Five small shields Azure he doth now include In sign of these five Kings by him subdude 54. In these five Shields he paints the Recompence For which our Lord was sold in various Ink Writing his History who did dispence Such favour to him more