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A01828	The legacye or embassate of the great emperour of Inde prester Iohn, vnto Emanuell kynge of Portyngale, in the yere of our lorde M. v.C.xiii. Of the fayth of the Indyans, ceremonyes, relygyons [&]c. Of the patryarche [and] his offyce. Of the realme, state, power, maiesty, and order of the courte of prester Iohn; Legatio magni Indorum Imperatoris Presbyteri Ioannis, ad Emanuelem Lusitaniae Regem. English.	Góis, Damião de, 1502-1574.; More, John, fl. 1533.	1533 (1533)	STC 11966; ESTC S116675	18,827	64

prynces besynes in the lowe countreys and also hosted both twayn in one house at Antwerpe told me On this wyse was his tale In the tyme of his beyng at Inde for certayne maters he had there of his prynce where he remayned by the space of certayne yeres one a very valyant man Lupus Soarez by the kynges commaūdement was the chyefe capitayne of the Portyngales warres chyefe ruler of all the realmes cyttes townes and castelles that be vnder the kynge of Portyngales domynyon euen frō Ethiope thorough out the Chynas Thys Lupe had prepared hym a meruaylouse gret nauey to sayle as his aūcetours were wont to do from Cochine now is Cochyne y e castel dwellyng place of the Portyngale captayns so intended to come to the see of Araby commenly called the redde see agaynste the Turke whyche Turke nowe in stede of the Soldayne occupies the coūtrey when he was arryued in a certayne Ile called of the inhabytours Camara that lyeth in that coste incontynēt he caused two shippes to be made redy and toke vn to hym a certayne chosen Portyngales bothe famylyar and faythfull amonges whome this George was one This done he commaūded they sholde caste ouer to a nother Ile called Mazua to the entent that when he were there ones he wolde send out thre espyes vnto the great emperour of prester Iohn̄ vnder the pretext of marchaūdyse that for two causes One to be certyfyed of the legacye wherof Mathew before shewed vnto our kynge and to knowe whether those thynges were trew or false Secondely that they very narrowly sholde serche what portes and what hauens were vnder the dominyon of Pester Iohn̄ Of these .iii. spyes one was well lerned and very expert in scrypture whose name was Iusarte Viegas a Baccaren borne After they were ones saufe come home agayne bothe man shyppes to theyr capytayne and had made an ende of theyr vyage they shewed hym all both that they hadde sene there and also harde of the inhabytours of that countrey and further declared that they knewe for a suerty that the legacy of Mathew was trewe and that the same Mathewe they sayde was suche a one as we had sene hym with our owne eyen ones embassatour before our kynge The cause and maner of the legacye they say was sych After that Ellyn the mother of Dauid prester Iohn̄ that then was a very wyse and a dyscrete gouernour of all his hole realme for he was but a chylde had lerned of certayne Portyngales whyche were come to her court specyally of one called Iohn̄ Clerke all that euer we hadde done at Inde agaynste the infydeles she sendeth that Mathew in a secrete legacy vnto the most christyned prynce Emanuell the fyrste of that name kynge of Portyngale wyth whome she sendeth also a nother yonge man an Ebyssyne borne an noble man Iames by his name of whome byfore in the descrypcyon of the legacy we haue made mencyon To theym she gaue here letters of commendacyon dyrected to the hed ruler of that prouynce vnder the domynyon of prester Iohn̄ whose powre stretcheth to Mazua and the see of Araby to pray hym to helpe them as secretely as he coulde with all such thynges as they shold nede makyng as though they were marchaūt men which came thether for marchaundyse This ruler and who so euer happeneth to be in that offyce is called in the Ebessyne tonge Baruagays This Mathewe and his companyon the Ebyssyne through the letters of commendacy on they had were louīgly welcomed where as they made mery a certayne space neuer tellynge no man theyre purpose neyther what he wolde do there or where when he thens departed he wolde become But to the entent he myght brynge his purpose to passe wyth lesse parell fayned hym selfe a lether byer and in the meane season now and then bought certayn presents whych pryuyly he sent vnto quene Ellyn And vnder this cloke perused dyuers prouynces menyng this that escapynge saufe wythout hurte through enmyes of the Portingales at last myght come to Portyngale yt selfe and so there do the thynges he come for For other way then this was there not Alwaye whether so euer he went or where so euer he became he toke with hym this yonge man his felowe the Ebyssyne leuynge all his hole housholde at Arquyke whyche is a cytty nere the see coste appertaynyng to prester Iohn̄ dystant about a myle from the yle of Mazua wherin that Baruagais before named then abode For it is euer the abydynge place of that offycer But nowe yf percase any capcyous felowe wolde obiecte why of so many noble men as there is no dout but there be in so great a court as prester Iohn̄s is there were not sent in that embassate some oldermen men of more grauyte of greater experyēce and bysydes this Ebyssyns borne whyche myght haue borne a greater porte and maieste before our prynce rather then these of whome the one was farre frome the nobilyte ether of an Ebyssyne or Indyane eyther bycause beyng an Armenycane and the other all though he was an Ebyssyne and in y e kynges court brought vppe yet but a yonge man an wythoute the company waytyng on hym y t becometh a prynces embassatour to haue and therby sheweth not the dygnyte of a legate But hereof may there be two causes alledged The fyrste in all those regyons as great as they be from the see of Araby to the water of Gange there be but two languages that is to wit Persyke and Arabyke whyche languages who so perfytely knoweth may easely passe thorough all those prouynces Nowe in Prester Iohn̄s courte be there very fewe or none nobles Ebyssyns borne that can skyll of those tonges Fyrste bycause they haue lyttell cōpany or acquayntaūce wyth the out borderars Secondely for that yt seldome causeth theym to go out of theyr owne countrey as beynge contente wyth theyre countrey lawes And for y t cause the same Mathew skylled in both the tonges and in all the prouynces there about for he hadde ofte ben in them and seyng that at that tyme all though he were an Armenyane yet he was of the quenys counsayll and very great about her he was thoughte the metyst for that message namely syns he hadde one ioyned wyth hym an Ebyssyne borne whyche both knewe the tonges and maners of many nacyons so that yf nede shold requyre he were mete to be sent on a lyke embassat The seconde cause is The actes of warre of the Portyngales done wyth the Indyans agaynst the Turkes or Persyes at that tyme was not so well knowen of the Ebyssyns that they thought it nedefull to vēter any old noble Ebyssyne specyally syns they were vnexperte in y e tonges in so farre and so dyffyculte a vyage tyll tyme they were farther certyfyed by some other And therfore pleased to sende that Mathew an Armenycane borne as moste meate for that besynes whyche not greatly accōpanyed but as a marchaunt sholde go and

them Many sumptuous and costely temples houses of relygyō be there as well of other as of saynt Fraūces order where dayly is vsed diuine seruyce Ouer y e hyghest parte of a gate in the cytye whyche they call saynte Mary da sera be kept had in great veneracyon honour the bones of that capytayne Alfonsus Dalbuberque But nowe after y t Mathew had arriued from the town of Dabull in the hauen of Goa the Capitayne Alfonsus cōmaunded hym to come vnto him He denyed sayd he wold not come out of the shyppes alledgynge y t he was not the legate of any meane prince but of y e hygh mighty emꝑour of Inde Prester Iohn̄ hereūto added that it were not cōuenyēt nor metely that thembassatour of so hygh a myghty chrystened emperour shold be receyued to so noble a duke as Alfonsus is wythout dewe reuerence honour Thē Alfonsus callyng to gether his clerkes prestes all his nobilite y t were nigh at hand goth forth namely syns he was y e embassatour of thēperour Prester Iohn̄s to mete hym wyth crosses and such other ornamentes of the chyrche the prestes and clerkes syngynge this hymne Te deum laudamus within a fewe dayes after Alfonsus began to aske hym of his legacy to whome he answered y t he was sent from prester Iohn̄ vnto the most Crystened prynce Emanuel kynge of Portīgale that he ought onely to open the cause of hys embassate to no creature but vnto hym alone whych when he hard the duke Alfonsus axed hym no further questyons wythin a whyle after when he saw his time this Mathew this noble yonge mā y e Ebyssyne with al his company makyng hast toward Portyngale Alfonsus very gentylly accōpanied him vnto y e hauen where takyng shyppyng frō Goa they cam toward Portīgale All this shewed vn me this George Lupe Dandrade that he knewe of a suerty for trewth for as myche as we haue shewed you before the great rular of Inde Lupꝰ Soarez had sent him from the Ile of Camara as a spye amonge the Ebyssynes vnder the pretexte of marchaūdyse to serche out the trewth of that legacye when he that noble yonge man the Ebyssyne wyth all his famyly came to Portyngale my selfe as I haue shewed your holynes byfore was by whome I both saw and spoke often wyth all He was a man of mean stature very whitly visaged and somwhat sallowe wyth a syde hore here wyth a longe whyte berde whych a lyttell more at lēgth I haue shewed your holynes to thentēt you with all other y t be desyrous to know the very trewth shall not thynke yt be a lye or fayned Of the people of Pilapes I Very well remembre me ryght reuerēt father howe you shewed me at my laste beynge wyth you that vnder your archbyshopryke was y e same wyld regyō of Scythyce other wise calleth Pilape where they neyther knowe god or Chryste nor aw haue they none amonges theym for theym to lyue by Surely a very myserable case a thynge nothynge chrystenlike consydered of your men For yt was tolde me bothe of good men vertuous men also and that for a suerty to that your nobles the more shame for theym were in faute why those people were no better then brute bestes nor came to chrystendome For so they fere they shall lese a great parte of theyre pollynge and pyllynge and theyr accustomed rauenous roberye thorough the whyche they pytyfully oppresse with insacyable auaryce those sylly pore innocent people And therfore I desyred you then yet agayne in Chrystes name do and that not I alone but also as many as thynke as I do that syns yt is your offyce as beynge theyre herdman and they cōmytted to you by god you wold cause those nobles of yours to leue theyr couetous crueltye and so in conclusyon to brynge those symple soules to the knowlege of Cryste and so payenge theyr dew trybutes to theyr kynges as other crysten people do to theyre prynces Let those nobles of yours take hede therfore what they do that they compell not so great a folde of shepe in tyme to come in the presence of that iuste iudge Iesu Cryste to axe iudgement of that tyranny of theyrs I desyre your holynes to do that lyeth in you whyche doyenge se what glory and what rewarde you shall obtayne of god what prays and laude bysydes of the worlde No more to your holynes but thus fare you well I suppose that I shalbe shortly at Portyngale with the kynges hyghnes or elles at Germany But where so euer I become I shall be holly yours I pray you I may be hertly recomēded vnto your brother Olaus the great Goth a very specyall frende and louer of myne At Antwerpe out of the comyn houses of our realme of Portyngale in the Calendas of December the yere of our god M.D.xxxi ¶ Prynted by W. Rastell in Fletestrete in saynte Brydys chyrch yarde 1533 Cum priuilegio