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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13833	The admirable life of S. Francis Xavier Deuided into VI. bookes written in Latin by Fa. Horatius Tursellinus of the Society of Iesus and translated into English by T.F.; De vita B. Francisci Xavierii. English	Torsellino, Orazio, 1545-1599.; Fitzherbert, Thomas, 1552-1640.	1632 (1632)	STC 24140; ESTC S118493	353,124	656

wholy at his dispose Then conforting the inhabitants he promised them that he would alwayes whersoeuer he was haue a great care of their saluation And exhorting them to keep in the meane time the true religion in the midst of a corrupted generation he gaue them assured hope of speedy help In which promise he did not fayle For after he was departed from them by the first occasiō which was offered him he directed letters to Iohn King of Portugall wherin he earnestly commended to his kingly prouidence the Christians of Socotora who straying like sheep without a pastour abandoned of al were greatly oppressed by tyranny For in that Iland there was a Saracen Prince who cōtrary to al right equity tyrannizeth ouer the inhabitants who be eyther Christians or affected to the Christian fayth hauing had their first beginning from the disciples of S. Thomas the Apostle vexing oppressing them in a miserable manner yea taking the children by violence out of their parents bosomes he endeauoureth to make them slaues to Mahomet the Deuill He therefore intreated his maiesty as a most religious King not to permit them by litle litle to fall away from the grounds of Christianity to the customes and rites of the Saracens and that they might not willingly giue their soules to him who had by force gotten dominion ouer their bodyes They were in danger vtterly to be vndone vnlesse his Maiesty from Portugall would help them And there was no doubt but God who had giuen him such ability that he alone of all the Kings in Christendome was able to performe it would also giue him the will and desire to protect defend those miserable and afflicted soules Wherefore he should with all speed endeauour by his Royall assistance to maintayne them in the faith of their Sauiour who had redeemed both them and vs with his most pretious bloud Especially seeing that all this might be done without any danger or charges at all For he needed only to command his Royal Nauy which was yearly to passe that way to deliuer the Socotoreans by force from the most barbarous Tyranny of that Saracene Lord. These letters and requests of Francis lost not their desired effect For the cause seemed no lesse worthy of consideration to the King then it had done vnto him neither did he take it lesse to the hart Wherfore with that speed which beseemed his religious Piety he sent thither a nauy and the warre was as fortunate as pious For they taking Socotora by force beate out the Saracens and freed the inhabitants from the subiection of their Tyrannicall Lord and moreouer placed a strong garrison in the Iland that their liberty might be no lesse gratefull then secure But Xauier not content with this bestowed vpon them afterward a benefit greater then their liberty For he sent some of the Society into that Iland who might againe cultiuate that ouergrowne vineyard of our Lord and deliuer them also from the Tyranny of the Deuill who were already freed from the Saracens As soone as the ship departed from Socotora Francis setled himselfe agayne to his former taske of helping the sick and at last with the same laborious and charitable exercises as he began his Indian voyage hauing passed the coastes of Arabia and Persia he arriued at Goa a famous Citty of India vpon the VI. of May 1542. which day being the feast of Saint John ante portam Latinam is very memorable among the Indians For vpon that very day Xauerius who by the speciall benefit fauour of God was borne for the good of those nations brought with him great light and saluation into India togeather with the light of the Gospel and by himselfe reuiued those lost countries opened a way to others of the Society for the conuersion of other nations the which shal be plainly seene by that which followeth in this History For heerafter I well set downe Xauiers actes more at large then hitherto I haue done Because those things which I haue already spoken of are although not doubtfull yet a litle obscure because for the most part they want the cleere testimony of letters But henceforward I will speake of such things which were left written partly by himselfe and partly by those who through long and familiar conuersation with him in India did not only obserue them whilst he liued but had also particular knowledge of them after his death OF THE LIFE OF S. FRANCIS XAVIER THE II. BOOKE In vvhat state be found India CHAP. I. INDIA being a place much spoken of by Poets and Historiographers is a Country of Asia almost twice as long as broad somwhat like in proportion to a mans tongue Towards the North it butteth vpon the Mount Caucasus in the West it is inuironed with the Riuer Indus from whence it taketh its name as the East in like manner is with the riuer Ganges and from the temperate Zone it stretcheth it self out euen vnto the Southern Ocean The forsaid riuers issuing from the mountaines of Scythia and deuiding themselues into two mayne Torrents the further they runne the broader they leaue the land betweene them and hauing run almost a thousand miles that is very neere halfe the length of India they fall finally into the sea Betwixt the mouths of these riuers where India is broadest it hath 800. miles or there about in breadth From thence by litle little it groweth narrower vntill it commeth vnto the Promontory of Commorinum where in forme of a wedge it shooteth out a mighty way towards Asia India in the inward partes of the land is inhabited by Pagans of the same Country Towards the coast which lyeth vpon the riuer Indus they haue for the most part Kings of their own nation but towards Ganges they be Saracens For the Saracens hauing now long since gotten thither out of Arabia Persia by litle and litle partly by policy and partly by force haue brought many of the Indians vnder their subiection The Portugheses also hauing free passage thither by sea and by occasion of their often going to those Countries vnknowne to others haue in ech Coast therof taken the possession of many Townes of good note for which cause they are very famous throughout India the whole East The sea coast of India which for a great part lyeth vnder the Torrid Zone is continually almost so beaten vpon with the sunne that it remaineth euen parched withered vp all the yeare long Yet the heat is so tempered by seasonable raynes and Eastern windes that it is inhabited without any great incommodity although in summer which they haue twice a yeare by reason the sunne passeth yearely the Equinoctiall line twice all things are burnt vp with the forsayd scorching heates The Country is fertile especially of Rize which they vse insteed of wheat next to Rize they haue a certayne Palme-tree whereof they gather not only greene and dry fruite but also which may seeme