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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

by the greatest Preparations and most eminent Persons of both Kingdomes yet the complicated Strength of Nature and the Hollanders Fortifications whom their Experience had made the great Masters of that Art made it impregnable against all Attaques The taking in of this by the Portuguese alone when a King of their own made them act like and for themselves and the keeping of it against the Force and Fleet of Count Maurice of Nassau may at the end of a long Preface excuse the Recital of many more performances of the Portuguese after their Restauration Notorious for the Wisdome of the Contrivance and Gallantry of the Execution Peter Wyche WHITEHALL Aug. 12. 1663. Let this Translation be Printed Henry Bennet THE LIFE OF DOM IOHN DE CASTRO The First BOOK I Am Writing the Life of Dom Iohn de Castro a Man greater then his Name greater then his Victories whose Memory is yet fresh in the East descending from Father to Son a successive Book wherein the Fame of his Actions is preserv'd always Alive and we will add to the general Acclamations of his Glory this little shout since Records keep not so well in Tradition as Writing 1. Dom Iohn de Castro was a Renown'd Branch of an Illustrious Family But first we will tell his Vertues then his Stock the Nobility a man raiseth by his Actions being greater then that he acquires from his Ancestors He spent his first Years in that Learning and Vertue his Age was then capable of being so naturally inclin'd to Learning that he needed not be forc'd but only put in the way Dom Iohn not being the Heir of his House was intended for Study Learning being always the second Birth-right amongst the best Houses of this Kingdome Dom Iohn obey'd not having then Liberty to refuse or a School to take another Lesson in 2. He Learnt Mathematicks of Peter Nonnius the greatest Man Portugall knew of that Profession and came to be such a Master in the Science as if he had intended to profess it In this School he was Companion to the Infante Dom Lewis whose Familiarity he got into both by his Quality and Ingenuity but as Dom Iohn embrac'd Learning out of Obedience and Arms by Destiny he look'd upon the glory of the Schools as small finding himself intended for the Warrs both by his own Inclination and by his fore-fathers Example 3. The repute of Dom Edward Menezes Governour of Tangiers was at that time great whose Name the Africans heard with terrour and we with respect Dom Iohn look'd more upon his Victories then the Schemes and Circles of Euclid loving the Arts only as they waited on Courage 4. Being eighteen years Old finding himself more grown in Spirit then in Age making an escape he Embark'd for Tangiers where contrary to the Custom of such places he bore Arms nine years as if he intended to spend his Life in what was only a beginning on all occasions in that Warr he behaved himself with Courage equal to his Blood and above his Years deserving the joy of it from his Friends and envy from the Souldiery 5. Dom Edward de Menezes respected him as if he had then read in this History his Victories in Asia we are now Writing he would needs with his own hands give and receive the honour of Knighting him being proud so long before of this Son of his Discipline and considering that so great Bravery deserv'd to be encouraged by the favours of Princes desiring that Valour should have due Rewards equally favouring the King and Subject he writ to the King Dom Iohn the Third that Dom Iohn de Castro had so serv'd that now no Place or Reward could be too great for him that his Highness ought to conferr some honour on him because Kings make Souldiers by taking notice of them and it was just that in the sight of so great a Prince Vertue should not remain unrewarded 6. The King immediately sent for Dom Iohn by so honourable a Letter as if he had intended him no other recompence with that Dom Iohn came to the Court where he was as much Envy'd for his wounds as for the favour shown him The King made him Commendatory of Salvaterra awaking Deserts in others by the Value he had for them in him 7. Dom Iohn spent some time in Court without being drawn away to any youthfull Vice either by his Years or Example appearing truly a Man all along taking so well his Measures that neither his Maturity made him ill-humour'd nor his Civility facil He knew how to play the Philosopher amongst the Varieties of the Court shunning in that kind of Life what had any shew of Idleness not any thing that arguesd Discretion 8. He altered his course of Life by Marrying the Lady Leonore Coutinho his Cousin German once removed the Daughter of Leonel Coutinho a Gentleman of the Illustrious House of Marialva Nobility so known and so auntient that our knowledge of that and the Kingdome bear both the same Date He had no other Portion but the Qualities and Vertues of his Bride yet without the propps of an Estate did so maintain his Honour that he was by all treated with the respect of a Rich and the pitty of a Poor man 9. Then presented it self the Battail of Tunis an Action more famous for the Victory then Advantage in which Dom Iohn de Castro had no little share in the Honour of Danger We will give a larger relation of its success The King Dom Iohn having engaged in it his Forces the Infante Dom Lewis his Person That notorious Rover Barba-Rossa had infested all the Mediterranean with more Strength and Boldness then is ordinarily heard of in a Pirat finding Fortune so ready to assist his Daring that amidst the Triumphs of Charls only Barba-Rossa was the scandal of his Victories Seeing himself every day more advanc'd in Opinion and Forces he went to serve the Turk with whom the report of our injuries had given him credit and buying his favour with the most Valuable things he had got to be Admiral of the Seas coming often with great numbers of Gallies he very much infested the Ports of Naples and Sicily the Valour of the Natives or the Protection of the Empire to which they were Vassals not being able to defend them He made Slaves of i●finite numbers whereof divers truckt their Faith for their Liberty laid waste Provinces and burnt Ships getting a very great Name amongst the Infidels by the miseries of the Christians till forgetting his beginning his Prosperity made way for his ambition of Reigning and he usurp'd the Kingdome of Iunis by diverse Artifices which Story be●ongs not to our History Charls looking upon this Tyrant having so much force of his own that he was abetted by a far greater Power and that his Kingdoms lying so near it was not fit he should root himself at the Gates of his House that the Moors who