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religion_n	good_a	king_n	prince_n	3,500	5	5.4628	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00400	A discourse of the nauigation which the Portugales doe make to the realmes and prouinces of the east partes of the worlde and of the knowledge that growes by them of the great thinges, which are in the dominions of China. Written by Barnardine of Escalanta, of the realme of Galisia priest. Translated out of Spanish into English, by Iohn Frampton.; Discurso de la navegacion que los portugueses hazen à los reinos y provincias del Oriente. English	Escalante, Bernardino de, 16th cent.; Frampton, John, fl. 1577-1596.	1579 (1579)	STC 10529; ESTC S101702	64,782	94

preache the Gospell too these people but by reason that it is not permitted vntoo straungers too stay manie dayes in this Countrey they were compelled too returne foorthwith without yelding that fruite whiche they desired notwithstanding they found thē very apt to be caught and willing to learne and easie to be reformed of theyr false Idolatrie and with al humilitie they receiue it and acknowledged the corrections of theyr filthines He that first began this Catholike woorke was Maister Frauncis Xauierre one of the seuen Religious men of the firste confirmation of the saide companie and was the first that came intoo Portingal and that past intoo India and from thence to China But before he began to execute his Catholyke desire he died in Canton and was brought from thence too Goa where his body lyeth buried in the Colledge of Saincte Paule of the same Religion The Religious Dominike declareth that throwing downe certaine stones vpon the ground which they did woorshippe they came vnto him with such rage as if they woulde haue killed him but he pacified them foorthwith in geuing them to vnderstand theyr little constancie their vaine Idolatrie and as they are of excellent witt they forthwith fell in to the matter and thought well of his iudgement saying that no man had euer taught them the like vntill that time And with the selfe same excuse they excused them selues withall when he did reprehende them of the filthie sinne not too bee named vntoo the which they are much giuen thinking that they do not euil therein But the greatest difficultie that these religious men founde was that the gouerners and ordinary Iudges do attende with great care that no newe thing be taught amongst them without order licence of theyr king and as they are rigorous and readie to chasten no man darre to bee a Christian without licence although that they vnderstand it to be conuenient for theyr saluation therefore it doth import with expedition that these inconueniēces be taken away and that there be sent an Embassador too this greate Prince And in that Embassadge might go learned men and Religious that should giue them to vnderstande the darkenes wherein they liue and too perswade them to bee Christians and that he shoulde permit thē too preach the Gospel throughout al his Realme and howe that it is not hurteful too take from him his Lordshippe and gouernement but rather fauorable wherby his subiects may obey him the better This wil be easily obteined of him otherwaies for to attempte it by way of conquest it will be so harde a matter as it may bee vnderstoode by his power and greatnes and by that which is conteined in a Chapter of the relatiō that the Captaine Artieda gaue to his Maiestie who was present at the cōquest of the West Ilandes with are called Philippinas treating of this realme which worde for worde speaketh as foloweth There are also to the Northwarde of these Ilāds the firme lād which they cal China It is a great Countrie insomuch that it is certainely knowen that it bordereth with Tartaria for the people that trade thither say that they haue ware with them They are a people very politike they worke Iron with percers of steele I haue seene golde and siluer wrought so well with Iron as coulde bee in the worlde and in this sorte they woorke thinges of timber and all other thinges They saye that the Portingales are good people and that they haue a littel light of the world but in comparison too them they see but with one eye They spin golde as they doo in Milan and weaue Damaske and other silkes with it They haue all kind of armour as wee haue and artillery Iudging it by certaine vesselles that I haue seene come from thence that it is plaine and better cast thē our is They haue so good gouernment that they say they make neither Gouernor nor Captaine which is not a greate Astronomer And first they shal pronosticate the tyme and chaunce that is too come and it shall be prooued and seene to fall out true that hee may preuent any thing that is to come In euery Citie and Prouince there are garrisons of men of warre they goe wel apparelled they are as whyte as we are and weare there beards long The womē are very faire although that all of them haue little eyes they weare their coates and gownes so long that they touche the grounde and they make their heare red with collours and it is saide that they painte theyr faces They say this king is of so great powre that hee doeth bring into the fielde three hundreth thousande men and twoo hundreth thousande of them horsemen In thinges that are painted ▪ I haue seene brought from thence wherein are painted on horsebacke armed men with harnesse and salets and lances The countrie is so good and so well furnished with vittaile that it is thought to be the best most fertile soyle of the world The Moores that I haue spoken withall doo affirme that they bee not so warrelike as wee are They haue Mouldes and haue printed bookes tyme out of mynde If it please your Maiestie that this Country bee seene with the sight of the eyes I doo offer my self therevnto geuing mee twoo Shippes of two hundreth and fiftie tōnes a peece little more or lesse and 40. Souldiers in euery shippe and the Artillarie Munition and Uittaile sufficient and necessarie with Gods healpe carying some order of Embassadge to the Lorde of the Countrie to enter in with my person and too returne all along the coast by the newe Spayne And too see the order they haue as well for the trade with in the lande as for all the reste if that will please your Maiestie And in that which this Captaine saith that the king doth bring three hundreth thousande men intoo the fielde besides the garrisons that he hath ordinarily in the Cities townes that doo border neerest other Princes in this my opinion remaineth verefied And although they be not so warrelyke as wee are as the Moores haue declared I knowe not what powre were sufficient for so great a number of horsmen and against people so wel armed the Artillarie being so common to them as it is to vs And seeing there is required that there shoulde passe thither so greate a nauigation and seeing this great Countrie doth fal within the compas of the conquest of our Catholike king it wil be a thing of importaunce that his Maiestie doo commaunde too ordeine this Embassadge with the good will of his holynes whereby this Prince may reduce it to the gouernment of the holy Catholike Churche whereof may growe greate effectes in the increasing of the Christian Religion And this is very easie to be done seeing that our Spayniardes are become so neere neighbors to that realme and the Nauigation soo neere and certaine as here in it is declared There is in the new Spayne in the South part thereof