or run away whither they will which among them is a work of great charity saying it is don to their euen neighbors And if they take a flea or a Lowce they wil not kil it but take or put it into some hole or corner in the wall and so let it go you can do them no greater iniury then to kil it in their presence for they wil neuer leaue intreating and desiring withall curtesie not to kill it and that man shoulde not séeme to commit so great a sinne as to take away the life of that to whom God had giuen both soule and body yea and they will offer much money to a man to let it liue and goe away They eate no Radishes Onions Garlicke nor any kinde of hearbe that hath any colour of red in it nor Egges for they thinke there is blood in them They drinke not any wine nor vse any vineger but onely water They are so dangerous of eating and drinking with other men which are not their Countriemen that they would rather starue to death then once to doe it It happeneth oftentimes that they saile in the Portingales ships from Goa to Cochin to sell their wares and to traffique with the Portingales and then they make their prouisions for so long time as they thinke to stay vpon the way which they take aboard with them and thereupon they féede and if the time falleth out longer then they made account of their water and prouision beeing all spent as it hapned when I sailed from Goa to Cochin they had rather die for hunger and thirst then once to touch the Christians meate they wash themselues before they eate as the Bramenes doe as also euery tyme when they ease themselues or make water They are of a yellowe colour like the Bramenes and somewhat whiter and there are women among them which are much whiter and clearer of complection than the Portingale women They are formed and made both in face limmes and all other thinges like men of Europe colour only excepted Their apparrell is a thinne white gowne vppon their naked bodies from the head to the féet and made fast on the side vnder their armes their shooes of red leather sharp at the toes and turning vp like hookes their beardes shauen like the Turkes sauing only their moustachios they weare on their heades a white cloth thrée or foure times wrapped about like the Bramenes and vnder their haire a starre vpon their foreheads which they rub euery morning with a little white sanders tempered with water and 3. or 4. graines of rice among it which the Bramenes also doe as a superstitious ceremonie of their law Their bodies are commonly annoynted with sanders other swéet woods which they doe very much vse as also all the Indians Their women are apparelled like the Bâ—amenes wiues they eate like the Mahometans and all other Indians vpon the ground In their houses or assemblies they sit on the ground vppon mattes or carpets and alwaies leaue their shooes without the dore so that they are alwaies barefoote in their houses wherefore commonly the héeles of their shooes are neuer pulled vp to saue labour of vntying or vndoing them they haue a thousand other heathenish superstitions which are not worth the rehearsall whereof we haue told you the most principall and therby you may well enough vnderstand what the rest are The 38. Chapter Of the Canaras and Decanijns THe Canaras and Decaniins are of the countrie of Decam commonly called Ballagate lying behinde Goa many of them dwell in Goa where their wares and shops are of all sorts of Veluets Silkes Sattins and Damaskes which they buy by great of the Portingales also al kinds of cotton linnen porselyne and all kindes of wares and marchandises of Cambaia China Bengalla c. which they likewise buy of the Portingales and other nations and sell it againe by retaile for the which purpose they haue brokers of their owne Countrimen which looke for all kindes of wares and commodities These bring likewise all victuals and necessaries out of the firme land into the towne and Island of Goa They haue their Indian ships wherewith they traffique to Cambaia Sunda and the read sea Many of them are gold and siluer smithes worke in Copper wherein they are very cunning They haue also diuers other handicrafts as Barbers Phisitions Carpenters and such like as dwell in Goa so that they are almost as great a number as the Portingale Mesticos and Christians Their apparrell is like the Gusurates Benianes except their shooes which they weare like Antiques with cut toes and fastned aboue vpon their naked féete which they call Alparcas They weare their beards and their haire long as it groweth without cutting but only turne it vp and dresse it as the Benianes and Bramenes vse to doe and are like them for colour forme making They eate all thinges except Kine Hogges and Buffels flesh and fish They account the Oxe Cow or Buffel to be holie which they haue commonly in the house with them and they besméere stroke and handle them with all the friendship in the world and féed them with the same meat they vse to eate themselues and when the beastes ease themselues they hold their hands vnder their tails and so throw the dung away In the night time they sléepe with them in their houses to conclude vse them as if they were reasonable creatures whereby they thinke to doe God great seruice In their eating sitting in the house washing making cleane and other ceremonies and superstitions they are altogether like the Bramenes Gusurates and Banianes In their mariages they contract ech with other at 7. yeres at 11. or 12. yeares they are maried and dwell together When they are to be maried they begin fourtéene dayes before to make a great sound with trumpets drummes and fires which continueth day and night for all those fourtéene dayes with so great a noise of songs and Instruments that men can neyther heare nor sée On the wâ—dding day all the friends and kindred on both sides doe assemble together sit vpon the ground round about a fire and goe seauen times about it vttering certaine wordes whereby the wedding is done They giue their daughters no houshold stuffe but only some Iewels as bracelets eare-rings and such like of small valew wherewith their husbands must bee content for the Daughters are no heires but the Sonnes inherite all but they kéep and maintaine their daughters and sisters till they marie when they die they are likewise burnt and some of their wiues with them but not so many as of the Bramenes Euery one of them followeth his fathers occupation and marieth with the daughters of such like trades which they name kindreds They haue their fasting daies and ceremonies like the Bramenes for they are as the laytie and the Bramenes as the spiritualty the Ministers Priests Prophets of their Idols They hire and farme the customes and
the battaile by him erected hee wonne the Castle and towne of Septa from the Mores in Barbaria or Affrica and was Father to the Infant Don Ferdinand that is Canonized for a Saint After him raigned his sonne Don Duarte or Eduart and was the 11. king of Portingale he liued 42. yeares whereof he raigned 5. yeares king hee died in the Pallace of the couent of Thomar in Anno 1438. he lieth buried in the Cloyster of the battaile Don Alfonso his sonne was borne in S. Arein in the yeare of our Lord 1432. and because he was but 6. yeares of age wheÌ„ his Father died his vncle the Infant Don Pedro raigned in his place vntill the yeare of our Lord 1448. Then the said Don Afonso was himselfe crowned king was the 12 king of Portingale he died in S. Arein in y e same chamber where he was borne the 28 of August 1481. and lieth buried by his Ancestors in the Cloyster of the battaile After his death raigned his sonne Don Ioan the great called the seconde of that name being the 13. King of Portingal he was borne in Lisbone the 4. of May anno 1455. hee did openly himselfe being present cause Don Fernando Duke of Beâ—ganca vpon the market place of the towne of Euora to be beheaded on the 22. of Iune in An. 1483. with his owne hand with a Poynyard slew Don Domingos Duke of Begia brother to his wife Dona Lianor presently calling Don Manoel the said Dukes brother gaue him the same Dukedome with all that belonged therunto he liued 40. yeres and died at Aluor in the bath the 25. of October An. 1495. lieth buried in the Cloister of the battaile by his Ancestors died without issue By his last Wil and Testament he gaue the Crowne of Portingale vnto Don Manoel Duke of Viseu who was crowned king of Portingale was the 14. king hée was crowned in Alcacer do Sal the 27. of October An. 1495. he caused all the Iewes in his land eyther willingly or by force to such as refused it to be christened in the yere of our Lord 1499. and caused all the Mores that dwelt at Lisbone without the gate of Moreria to be banished whereof the gate to this day holdeth the name In the â—â—me of this king there happened an insurrection of Portingales in Lisbone against the new Christened Iewes whereby they slew certaine hundereths of them both men women and children burning some of them with a thousand other mischiefes robbing their houses shops and goods for the which the king did great Iustice and finding out the principall beginners of the same caused them to bée punished This king did first discouer and by his captaines souldiers conquered y e Countries and passages into the East Indies and y e orientall countries for spices also the hauens passages in Prester Iohns land hee likewise conquered the towns fortresses of Saffâ—in Azamor in Affrica he died in an 1521. vpon S. Luces day lieth buried in the Cloyster of Bethlehem by the dutchmeÌ„ called Roysters After his death raigned his son Don Ioan the 3. was the 15. king of Portingale he was borne in the month of Iune in Anno 1502. in the citie of Lisbone where he was crowned in anno 1521. he was simple curteous mild and a great friend vnto all religious persons as also to all students he fouÌ„ded the vniuersitie of Coymbra and other colledges died the 11. of Iune An. 1557. lieth buried in the Cloyster of Bethelem or Roysters After his death was crowned Don Sebastian and was the 16. king of Portingale he was son to the Prince of Portingale eldest sonne to the aforesaid Don Ioan that maried with Dona Ioana daughter to the Emperour Charles the fift and Sister to Phillip king of Spaine which Prince dying before his father left his wife great with childe of this Don Sebastian who after the death of his Grandfather was Crowned king of Portingale he was born on Sebastians day in the yeare of our Lord 1553. hee passed with a great armie into Africa to conquere the countrie in the yeare 1578. where hee with most of his Armie was slaine the rest taken prisoners and so died without issue After this ouerthrow and death of the said king Don Sabastian was Crowned Don Henricke a Cardinall vncle vnto the saide Don Sabastian and was the 17. King of Portingale and died without issue in Anno 1580. leauing by his last will and testament for heire of the Crowne of Portingale Don Phillip king of Spaine as lawfull successor vnto the same for that his Father Charles the 5. maried the eldest daughter of the king Don Manoel which was mother to Don Phillip king of Spaine and sister to the grandfather of Don Sebastian and of the aforesaid Don Henrick although there had bin another brother of the said don Henrick named Don Luiis who dying left a son called Don Antonio that was Prior de Ocrato of the order of the knightes of the Crosse of S. Iohns whome the Portingales chose for their king but by meanes of the great power and might of the king of Spaine who by monie had gotten the greatest part of the nobilitie of Portingale to hold with him partly by monie and partly by force he got the kingdome into his hands and subiection driuing Don Antonio out of the countrie so in anno 1581. he came into Portingale in Lisbon was crowned king in the cloyster of Thomar by all the 3 estates of the countrie that is the nobility spiritualtie and commons is the 18. king of Portingale who as yet liueth raigneth ouer the same countrie whereby the Crowne of Portingale is now fallen into the handes of the kinges of Spaine hauing continued in the handes of the kinges of Portingales for the space of 442. yeares which their successors till then inioyed being of the race and progenie of the house of Loraine Thus endeth the fourth Booke FINIS TYPVS ORBIS TERRARVM QVID EI POTEST VIDERI MAGNVM IN REBVS HVMANIS CVI AETERNITAS OMNIS TOTIVSQVE MVNDI NOTA SIT MAGNI TV DO CICERO Exacta acurata deliucatio cum orarum maritimarum tum etiam sororum terrestrium quae in regionibus China Cauchinchinâ— Cambojn siue Câ—ampa Syao Malaca Aracan Pegu una cum omnium vicinarum iusu latum descriptione ut sunt Samatra Java utraque Timora Molucca Philippinâ— Luconja de Leqveos dicta nec non insulae Japan Corece reliquaeque omnes adsacentes ubj etiam adnotauimus scopulos â—reviâ—i omniaque Vadosa loca siquce alia a quibus periculum navigantibus Qvemadmodum singula hoc aeâ—o à Lusitanis nauium gubernatoribus còmperta inaâ—â—gitata in tobulaâ— relaâ—a fuere Equoâ—um recentibus ac emen daâ—is tabulis perqà m studiose haec destribi ex primiâ— curavimus in eorum hominum coÌ„modum quibus ista usvi voluptatia
was called Coccolucio because such as were troubled therewith were no otherwise troubled then in the throat like vnto Hennes which haue the pip after the which followed many pestilent feuers with diuers strange fits which continued not aboue foure dayes Not long before the plague was so great in Portingale that in two yeres space there died in Lisbone to the number of 80. thousand people after the which plague the saide disease ensued which wrought great destruction throughout the whole Countrie of Spaine The fift day of August in the same yeare hauing some vnderstanding in the Spanish tongue I placed my selfe with a Dutch gentleman who determined to trauaile into Portingal to sée the countrie and with him stayed to take a more conuenient time for my pretended voyage Vppon the first of September following we departed from Siuill passing through diuers Townes and Villages within eight dayes after we ariued at Badaios where I found my other Brother following the Court. At the same time died Anne de Austria Quéene of Spaine Sister to the Emperour Rodulphus and Daughter to the Emperour Maximilian the Kings fourth and last wife for whom great sorrow was made through all Spaine her body was conuaied from Badaios to the Cloyster of Saint Laurence in Escuriall where with great solemnitie it was buried We hauing stayed certaine dayes in Badaios departed from thence and passed through a Towne called Eluas about two or thrée miles off being the first towne in the kingdome of Portingale for that betwéene it and Badaios the borders of Spaine and Portingale are limited from thence we trauailed into diuers other places of Portingale and at the last ariued at Lisbone about the twenty of September following where at that time wee found the Duke of Alua beeing Gouernour there for the King of Spaine the whole Cittie making great preparation for the Coronation of the King according to the custome of their countrie Wee beeing in Lisbone through the change of aire and corruption of the countrie I fell sicke and during my sicknes was seauen times let blood yet by Gods help I escaped and being recouered not hauing much preferment vnder the gentleman I left his seruice and placed my selfe with a Marchant vntill I might attaine to better meanes About the same time the plague not long before newly begunne began againe to cease for the which cause the King till then had deferred his enterance into Lisbone which wholly ceased vppon the first day of May Anno 1581 hee entred with great triumph and magnificence into the cittie of Lisbone where aboue all others the Dutchmen had the best and greatest commendation for beautiful shews which was a Gate a Bridge that stood vppon the riuer side where the King must first passe as hee went out of his Gallie to enter into the cittie being beutified and adorned with many costly and excellent thinges most pleasant to behold euery stréet and place within the cittie being hanged with rich clothes of Tapistrie and Arras where they made great triumphes as the manner is at all Princes Coronations The same yere the twelfth of December the Duke of Alua died in Lisbone in the kings pallace being high steward of Spaine who during his sicknes for the space of fourtéene dayes receaued no sustenance but only womens milke his body beeing seared and spicen was conuaied into his countrie of Alua The same month the King beeing yet at Lisbone died Don Diego Prince of Spaine and Portingale the kings eldest son his body béeing inbalmed was conuaied to Madril after whose death the king had but one Sonne named Don Phillip and two Daughters liuing About the same time there ariued at Lisbone the kings sister widdow to the deceased Emperour Maximilian and with her one of her daughters who beeing lame was after placed in a Monasterie of Nuns they with great triumph were likewise receaued into the cittie After the death of Don Diego the kings eldest sonne all the Lordes and States of Spaine and Portingale as well spirituall as temporal assembled at Lisbone and there in the kings presence according to the ancient custome and manner of the countrie tooke their oathes of faith and allegiance vnto Don Phillip the young Prince of Spaine and next heire and lawfull successor of the lung his Father in his dominions of Spaine Portingale and other landes and countries The next yeare Anno 1582. a great nauie of ships was prepared in Lisbone whose generall was the Marquesse de sancta Cruce accompanied with the principall gentlemen and captaines both of Spaine and Portingal who at their own costs and charges therein to shew the great affection and desire they had to serue their Prince sayled with the said Nauie to the Flemmish Ilandes to fight with Don Antonio that lay about those Iles with a Fléet of frenchmen whose Generall was one Phillip Strozzi These two Fléets méeting together fought most cruelly to the great losse of both parts yet in the ende Don Antonio with his French men was ouerthrowne and many of them taken prisoners among the which were diuers gentlemen of great account in France who by the Marquis commandement were all beheaded in the Island of Saint Michaels The rest being brought into Spaine were put into the Gallies Don Antonio himselfe escaped in a small ship and the General Strozzi also who béeing hurt in y e battail died of the same wound By this victory the Spaniards were so proud that in Lisbone great triumph was holden for the same and the Marquis de Sancta Crus receiued therin with great ioy which done and all thinges being pacified in Portingale the King left his Sisters sonne Don Albertus Cardinall of Austria Gouernour of Lisbone and the whole Countrie and with the saide Cardinals mother returned and kept Court at Madrill in Spaine The 2. Chapter The beginning of my voyage into the East or Portingale Indies STaying at Lisbone the trade of Marchandize there not beeing great by reason of the newe fresh disagréeing of the Spaniards and Portingales occasion being offered to accomplish my desire there was at the same time in Lisbone a Monke of S. Dominicks order named Don frey Vincente de Fonseca of a noble house who by reason of his great learning had of long time béene Chaplen vnto Sebastian King of Portingale who beeing with him in the battaile of Barbari◠where King Sebastian was slain was taken prisoner and from thence ransomed whose learning and good behauiour beeing knowne to the King of Spaine hee made great account of him placing him in his own Chappel and desiring to prefer him the Archbishopricke of all the Indies beeing voide with confirmation of the Pope he inuested him therewith although he refused to accept it fearing the long and tedious trauaile hee had to make thether but in the end through the Kings perswasion hee tooke it vpon him with promise within foure or fiue yeares at the furthest to recall him home againe and to giue him
reason of the different kingdomes and nations consisting of diuers seuerall sortes of people which are alwaies enemies and neuer liue in peace and some of them being friends other enemies to the Portingales for the Portingales haue only some Townes places and fortresses with their Hauens on the sea coast without holding any thing within the land as in the description of the coast wee haue alreadie declared By the pictures hereafter following may be séene the formes and portraitures of the Portingales that are maried and of the souldiers in India as they walke in the streetes as also howe they ride not onely gentlemen but euery man that hath the abilitie to keepe a horse as well Marchantes as handicraftes men of what sort soeuer they bee and howe they cause themselues to bee carried in Pâ—llamkins in the streetes and throughout the townes when they will not ride nor goe on foote You may likewise sée their fustes wherwith they go to warre vpon the water which the Malabares their enimies doe likewise vse for they haue no other sorts of scutes nor shippes and doe much mischiefe therewith they are verie light as well to saue as to row they vse them also for Marchandise because of the fitnes of the same to passe from place to place The 31. Chapter Of the maner and customes of Portingale and Mesticos women in India THe Portingales Mesticos and Indian Christian women in India are little séene abroad but for the most part sit still within the house and goe but seldome forth vnlesse it be to Church or to visit their friends which is likewise but verie little and when they goe abroad they are well prouided not to be seene for they are carried in a Pallamkin couered with a mat or other cloth so that they cannot be seene When they goe to church or to visit any friend they put on very costly apparrell with bracelets of gold rings vpon their armes all beset with costly Iewels pearles and at their eares hang laces full of Iewels Their clothes are of Damaske Veluet and cloth of gold for silke is the worst thing they doe weare Within the house they goe bare headed with a wastcoate called Baju that from their shoulders couereth their nauels and is so fine that you may see al their body through it and downewards they haue nothing but a painted cloth wrapped three or foure times about their bodies These clothes are very faire some of them being very costly wrought with loome worke and diuers figures and flowers of all colours all the rest of the body is naked without any hose but onely bare footed in a paire of moyles or pantosâ—es and the men in like sort This is their manner in the house both old and young rich poore none excepted for they goe forth but very little and then they are both couered and carried and what they néed abroad that the slaues both men and women doe fetch in The women eate no bread or very little nor yet the slaues not that they refuse it for the dearenes or want of bread for they haue enough and great aboundance but they are so vsed to eate rice that they desire no other which they seeth with water and eate it with some salt fish or a kinde of salt fruit called Mangas or with some other composition both of fish and flesh with pottage which they powre vpon it and so eate it with their handes for there they eate nothing with spoones and if they should sée any man doe so they would laugh at him When they drinke they haue certaine pots made of blacke earth very fine and thin much like those that we vse in Holland for flower pottes hauing in the necke thereof a partition full of holes with a spout and these cruses are called Gorgoletta to this end that when they drinke they may hold the potte on high and touch it not with their mouthes but the water running from the spout falleth into their mouthes neuer spilling drop which they doe for cleanlinesse because no man should put it to his mouth when any man commeth newly out of Portingall and then beginneth to drinke after their manner because he is not vsed to that kinde of drinking he spilleth it in his bosome wherein they take great pleasure and laugh at him calling him Reynol which is a name giuen in iest to such as newlie come from Portingall know not how to behaue them selues in such graue manner and with such ceremonies as the Portingales vse therein India so that at the first they are much whooped and cried at in the stréets vntill by vse and practise they haue learned the Indian manner which they quicklie doe The men are very iealous of their wiues for they will neuer bring any man into their houses how speciall a friend soeuer hee bee that shall sée their wiues or their daughters vnlesse it bee some gossip or any other married man with his wife in companie When they will goe together to some place to sport and solace theÌ„selues they are alwaies well garded by their slaues both men and women both for their safety and seruice If any man commeth to the doore to aske for the master of the house presently the wiues and their daughters run to hide them and so leaue the man to answer him that standeth at the dore likewise they suffer no man to dwell within their houses where the women and daughters bee howe neere kinsman soeuer he be vnto them being once 15. yeares of age nor their owne sons but haue certaine chambers and places beneath or besides their house where they lye may in no sort come among the women and thether they send them their meate and other prouisions for it hath oftentimes béene séene in those countries that the vncles sonne hath laine by his aunt and the brother by the brothers wife and the brother with his sister whereof I haue knowne some that haue bin taken with the manner and that both they and the woman haue beene slaine by the husbands The women are verie luxurious and vnchaste for there are very few among them although they bee married but they haue besides their husbands one or two of those that are called souldiers with whome they take their pleasures which to effect they vse al the slights and practises they can deuise by sending out their slaues and baudes by night and at extraordinary times ouer walles hedges and ditches how narrowlie soeuer they are kept and looked vnto They haue likewise an hearbe called Deutroa which beareth a séed whereof brusing out the sap they put it into a cup or other vessell and giue it to their husbands eyther in meate or drinke and presently therewith the man is as though hee were halfe out of his wits and without feeling or els drunke doing nothing but laugh and sometime it taketh him sleeping whereby he lieth like a dead man so that in his presence they may doe what they will and
whole kingdome are fairely paued and all along euen and smoth till you come to the hils and the entrance or Frontespicio of the Citties verie costly and workmanly built with thrée or foure Gates one by the other all stricken ouer full of Iron and the stréetes within the Citties and Villages very fairely paued and playned as straight as a line and euen in breadth so that if you stand at the ende of a stréete you may sée to the other ende by reason of the straightnes bee it neuer so long At the end of euery stréete are certaine Vaults made wherein are wares and marchandises of all costly things and prices that man can wish or desire Ouer euery stréete there are diuers Arches made of stone verie finely and cunningly Painted which are set in the stréetes because that all their feasâ—es pâ—ayes and spirituall ceremonies are done by night and then those Arches are placed full of lights and Torches which maketh a goodly shew The houses commonly haue three doores to goe in at whereof that in the middle is the greatest the other somewhat lesse they are commonly low without Sellers vnder grouÌ„d but within very large and broad with great roomes and faire Gardens full of all pleasure and delight The towne where the King is resident is called Xuntien or Taybjin which some men call Quinzay this name Xuntien is as much to say in Chinish speach as heauenly Cittie and lyeth in the Prouince of Paguia of the greatnesse whereof they write wonders for they affirme that within the walles the Towne is as long from the one end to the other as a man on horsebacke may ride vpon a day with a thousand other wonders which for breuitie I omit In this town the King hath his Palace with all pleasures that may or can bee deuised both for him selfe his wiues and his Courte His wiues little or neuer goe abroad so that they are seldome or neuer séene thereby to maintaine their authoritie as also fearing that any mischiefe should happen vnto them there are not in all the countrie any Noble men of name or title as Earles Dukes Viscounts or such like nor that haue any vassales commandements Iurisdictions or proprieties to themselues other then such as are giuen by the King and when they die it returneth againâ— vnto the King and if hee wil he may take it from the children but commonly hee letteth them haue it so they be fit for the place and that with a new giâ—â— and bond to serue the King In all the principall townes where the Viceroyes or Gouernours hold their states there hangeth a picture of the King couered with a Curtaine of cloth of Golde whereunto all Officers Commaunders Loiâ—as Mandorijns c. dayly resort and doe it all reuerence and honour such as belongeth to a King of such estate as if the King himselfe were there in person the Kings title is King and Lord of the world and Sonne of heauen No man throughout all China may beare any weapons nor yet haue them in his house but such as are appointed thereunto and receiue the Kings pay as souldiers whose children succeed their fathers in their places The men of China are great and cunning workemen as may well bee séene by the workmanship that commeth from thence They make and vse waggons or Cartes with sayles like Boates and with wheeles so subtilly made that being in the fielde they goe and are driuen forwards by the winde as if they were in the water they are verie wittie in buying and selling All the traders that kéepe shops haue a Table hanging at their doores wherein is written euery kind of ware they haue to sell All Officers or handicrafts men haue either of them a streete alone and dwell by themselues and their children must vse the like trade after their Fathers deaths whether they were souldiers Iustices or Gouernours When any man is very rich he is licenced not to work notwithstanding he must keepe workmen and keepe open shoppe the money that is vsed throughout all China is Golde and Siluer vnstamped but cut in smal peeces to the value of a penie and so receiued by waight and in like sorte payed Also all wares of what sort soeuer they bee not so much as Hennes Géese Fish and such like but are bought and solde by waight They haue one wife which they call their lawfull wife and as many other as they can well maintaine the sonne of the lawfull wife inheriteth most part of their goods and that which remaineth is equally deuided among the other children they marrie with whome they will except it be with their Sisters or their Vncles children The Bridegrome before he fetcheth the Bride home to his house must indowe her with certaine goods which he giueth to the Bride her selfe and shee giueth them vnto her Father or mother in recompence of their charges for bringing her vp in her youth which done shee goeth home with the Bridegrome and the parents may do what they wil with that which they haue so receiued for their daughters dowrie and spend it as they thinke good and what remaineth thereof after the parents are deade returneth againe vnto the daughter whose husband gaue the same for his wife so that he which hath most daughters is the richest as it is reported by the Pictures heereafter following you may see the forme and manner of those of Câ— as wel men as women as also of the Mandorijns and mightie men or Gouernours as they are carried in the stréetes and goe to sport vppon the ryuers where they refresh themselues with all kinds of dainties The men of China haue manie spéeches but in writing they vnderstand each other in euerie place for they write euerie thing with figures and characters whereof their alphabets are sundrie and innumerable these figures with their paper of diuers colours as also penne and inke you may see at D. Paludanus house so that men had need of a good memorie and long exercise before they can vnderstand them all and read what it is which is the cause that among them such as are learned are so much esteemed Their paper is like that of Auroâ—a but not so white but thinner and smoother they make also of all colors which is very saire they write with pennes of Reedes wherein there sticketh a pensell such as Painters vse Printing painting gun-powder with the furniture thereto belonging haue beene vsed in China many hundreth yeares past and very common so that it is with them out of memorie when they first began Their Chronicles shewe that their first king being a great Nigromancer who raigned manie thousand yeares past did first inuent great ordinance with all things belonging thereunto Printing is likewise very auncient with them for that there are bookes found in those countries of China which were printed at the least fiue or sixe hundreth yeares before printing was in vse with vs in Europe so that it is not founde when
done or executed giuing that thrid vnto one of the Lordes that attended on them and by that commandement gouerned the prouinces and by that token they commaunded al whatsoeuer they would desire which by their subiects was with so great diligeÌ„ce and dutiful obedience fulfilled that the like was neuer knowen in any place throughout the world and if hee chanced to command that a whole prouince shuld be clean destroyed and vtterly left desolate both of men and all liuing creatures whatsoeuer both yong old if he sent but one of his seruants to execute the same although he sent no other power or aide of men nor other commission then one of the theerds of his Quispell it was sufficient and they willingly yeelded themselues to all dangers of death or destruction whatsoeuer These kings were borne in chariots or seats made of beaten golde borne on the shoulders of 1000. Lordes and councelours at times thereunto appointed wherof if any of them vnaduisedly stumbled staggered he was presently put to death and no man spake vnto the king at any time but they brought him certaine presents and if they went to speake with him ten times in a daie so often must they preseÌ„t him with new gifts it was likewise accounted for a great fault so looke y e king in the face Being in the wars and hauing ouercome any countrie or prouince they obserued the ancient custom of Rome which was to take the people with them that they might not rise vp or rebell against them yet with great diffrence from the Romaines for that hauing won â—ame land or prouince they tooke many or â—â—we out of it according to the number of people that were therein if these whom they had conquered inhabited in a hot countrie they were placed in another warme country if theirs were cold they likewise went into a cold countrie where they had the lands deuided among theÌ„ that each man might liue vpon it And it the naturall countâ—â—men of any prouince or place wâ— to â—â—bel against their prince the kings Liâ—tenants and CoÌ„maunders vsed the 〈◊〉 as â—hat is the strange people to keep them in subiection and to the contrarie if the Mitimaes seemed once to stirre or rise vp they kept them in subiection by the naturall inhabitants and by this policie they maintained their countrie in great peace and quietnesse Besides this they vsed another meanes not to bee hated of their subiects for that they neuer tooke the rule or authoritie of any people that were subdued by them from the Caciquen or Lords that were nobly borne if any of them disliked thereof they punished him yet gaue his office either to his children or to his brethren commaunding them to bee obedient when they went to hunt and take their pleasures which they call Chico they assembled many men together according to the scituation of the countrey some times foure or 5000. men whom they placed in a ring together that many times compassed at the least two or three miles and so singing a certain song they followed each other foote by foote vntil they were so neare togither that they might reach hands and yet nearer till they could imbrace each other the nerer they went together the closer they made the ring by which meanes al the beasts by them inclosed they killed as they thought good with so great a noyse and crie as seemed incredible not much vnlike the maner of the Duch Princes in their general huntings specially of the Wolues onely that they haue not so many men nor sing not yet make a great noyse The beasts that they take are wild Sheepe Rheen Foxes Lions blacke Beares Cattes many Hogges and other beasts foules as Turtle doues Quailes Spetchten Parrots Hawkes c. The tributes and talages that the kings receiued of their subiects were things of their owne increase out of the countreyes that were vnfruitfull they brought him Hoopwik of Crocadiles by them called Caymans and many other wormes This Guaynacapa renewed the temple of the sunne in the Citie of Cusco couering the wals and ruffes with plates of gold and siluer and as I said before the prouince and countrey of Quito was woon by him which countrey pleased him so well that for a time hee continued therein meane time leauing his eldest son Guascar Iuga Mango and other of his children in Cusco to gouerne the countrey and in Quito hee married another Wife daughter to the Lord of the same prouince and by hir he had Atabalipam a son whom he greatly loued and when he trauailed to Cusco hee left him and others in Quito yet before he dyed he went once againe to Quito partly because the country liked him so well and partly to sée his sonne Atabalipam and there before he dyed hee ordained that the countrey and towne of Quito shuld remaine to his sonne Atabalipam and his heires for euer as beeing taken from his forefathers which his sonne Guascar after his fathers death would not permitte and for the same cause raised warres against his brother which in the ende was the ouerthrow and subiection of Peru whereof as in the life of Gualcaâ— that after his fathers death ruled all the countrey vnto Quito it appeareth Guascar signifieth a cord or cable for that at the time of his birth the king caused a cable of gold to be made as great as two hundred Indians could carry hee vsed likewise a plate of golde whereon hee sate worth at the least 25000. duckets which after fell into the hands of Francisco Pizarro first gouernour of Peru and all his vessel was of golde whereby it appeareth that golde was likewise much esteemed by them The Kings in Cusco had many goldesmiths shoppes therein to make and worke al kinde of vessels Iewels and images of men beastes foules and hearbes of golde al in good proportion and although theyr Goldsmithes vsed not any iron tooles yet they make most excellent workmanshippe although somewhat groser and plainer then ours The manner of working was in this sort first they tooke the siluer or golde that they would melt and put it in rounde or long melting vessels made of cloath pasted about with earth and beaten colours which being drie they set it in the fire with as much golde and siluer therein as they would melt or as it would hold and so with fiue or sixe reedes blowe so long about it vntill the mettall melted and became redde hot and the skimme being taken off it being taken out of the melting vessell euerie man had his part which they sitting vppon the earth with blacke Keâ—ciâ—ick stones made in form like hammers they forged framed theyr images of Gods vessels and Iewels of gold chaines and formes of all kinde of beastes birdes and hearbes with all manner of things But to returne vnto our former matter the Sonnes of Guaynacaâ—a called Guascar and Atabalipa were the cause of the destruction ruine and ouerthrowe of the countrey of Peru by reason
defence maintenance of the said Countries and places so that the rents and reuenewes of the Crowne of Portingale doe amount vnto the sum of 220000 Duckets at 5. shillings 6. pence the Ducket amounteth vnto in English monie to the summe of sixe hundreth and fiue thousand poundes The 5. Chapter Of the yearely charges disbursed by the Kinges of Portingale THe fées and payments due to the ministers Iustices of the lawes and ordinances of the countrie of Portingale for the executing of their offices doth amount vnto yearely the summe of 100000 duckets The rentes which the King bestoweth yearely as giftes and rewardes vnto such as haue done him seruice which being dead returneth vnto him againe doe yerely amount vnto the summe of 300000 duckets The Iuros which are bought for monie and fee farme or continuall rents to bee paide out of the kinges reuenewes customes and other demaynes yearely and are neuer released but remaine from heire to heire are yerely 150000 Duckets The charges of Maintayning the castles and fortes in Africa and Barbarie doe yerely amount vnto the summe of 300000. duckets The charges of maintaining fiue Gallies yearely 50â—00 Duckets The charges of the armie that doth yerely conuay the Indian ships thither fetcheth them back againe amount vnto 300000. Duckets The Moradien that is the wages which the king payeth to his seruants called Mocos da Camara Caualheâ— Fidalgos and other titles as an honour to such as hee will shew fauour vnto or els in reward of anie former seruices or in respect their Ancetors were true and faithfull seruitors to the king with those titles they are called seruantes of the kinges house which is a great honour they doe receiue a yearely stipend although not much towardes their charges of finding prouision for their horses although they can hardly saue a paire of shooes and yet neuer come on horses backe all their life time but it is onely a token of the Kinges fauour and good will wherein the Portingales doe more glorie and vaunt themselues then of any thing in the world yet is it not of much importance and verie little paie it amounteth yearely to 80000. Duckets The charge of the king of Portingales house is yearely the summe of 200000. Duc. which was wont to be farmed as at this day it is for the charge of houshold of Don Alberto Cardinall of Austria Gouernour of Portingale for the defence and maintenance of the Castles and Forts of Portingale the summe of 200000. Duckets So that the charges aforesaid doe amount vnto in all the summe of 1680000. duckets at fiue shillinges sixe pence the ducket is in English monie the summe of foure hundereth sixtie and two thousand pounds which being deducted out of the receates of Portingale aforesaid that amount vnto 605000. poundes English monie there resteth yearely for the king of Spaine Coffers one hundreth fortie and three thousand pounds English monie The 6. Chapter Of the Towne of Lisbone THe towne of Lisbone hath â—2 parish Churches and aboue eleuen thousaÌ„d houses wherin there are aboue â—0 thousand dwelling places accounting the Court and the place thereunto belonging it hath in people aboue 120000. whereof 10000. of them at the least are Slaues and Mores which estimation is made according to the church bookes which the Parsons Vicars and Curats are bound to doe once euerie yeare euerie one in his parish among these are not accounted such as follow the Court neyther Cloysters Cobents Hospitalles nor any other houses of religion for that in all they would amount vnto as much as the houses of the citie also of other Churches Cloysters and Chappels of the virgin Marie and other Saints which are no parishes there are so many that they can not be numbred The Towne hath aboue 350. streetes besides crosse waies and lanes that haue no thorow fare which are likewise a great number The 7. Chapter A short discourse of the pettigrees of kinges of Portingale vntill Phillip now King of Spaine and Portingale Sonne of Charles the fift Emperour of Rome THe first king of Portingale was named Don Alfonso Henriques sonne of Earle Henry who as the Chronicles rehearse was sonne of the Duke of Lorraine others thinke hee was sonne of the king of Hungarie but the truest Histories doe report him to be of Lorrane and that he came into the King of Spaines Court being desirous to imploy himselfe in the warres of the Christians against the Mores which as then held the most part of the countrie of Spaine and the whole land of Lusitania or Portingale warring continually on the King of Spaine and other Christians bordering on the same in the which warres hee behaued himselfe so well and did so valiantly that the King knew not how or in what sort to recompence him better then by giuing him his daughter in mariage with her for a dowrie gaue him the countrie of Portingale that was as much as he had conquered and brought vnder his subiection with all the rest if he could win it with the name and title of Earle of Portingale his sonne aforesaid called Don Alfonzo was borne in Anno 1094. who wan the most part of the countrie of Portingale from the Mores after his fathers death was called Prince of Portingale which name and title he enioyed for the space of 27. yeares which title in Spaine no man may beare but the Kings eldest son and heire vnto the Crowne and being of the age of 45. yeares was crowned king of Portingale by the fauour speciall priuiledge of the Pope of Rome as then being by that meanes Portingale became a kingdome This first King maried when he was 52. yeares of age and had one sonne and 3. daughters and besides them one bastard son and a bastard daughter he raigned 46. yeres and died in the towne of Coyinbra his body being buried in the Cloyster of Santa Crus erected by him as also the Cloysters of Alcobaca and Saint Vincent without Lisbone called Saint Vincent de Fora This King first wonne the Towne of Lisbone from the Mores by the aide help of the Flemmings and Low countrimen which came thether with a Fleet of Ships being by stormie weather forced to put into the riuer that were sayling to the holy land whether for the furtherance of Christian religion they as then trauelled which as I suppose was about the time that the Christians won the great City of Damyate in the couÌ„trie of Palestina where those of Harlame did most valiantly defend themselues and shewd great valour as the Sword Armes as yet extant doe well bare witnes which Fleet being come thether at such time as the said king besieged the said towne of Lisbone hee vnderstanding that onely cause of comming was to imploy their forces against the Infidels and vnbeleeuing Christians friendly desired them séeing it was Gods will they should ariue there at so conuenient a time to aide him against his enemies shewing them that they might
as well imploy their forces there as in the holie land to increase the faith of Christ and ouerthrow the enemies of the same whome if it pleased God to prosper as he doubted not but by their helpes to haue the victorie they might as then fulfill their pretended voiage both to the glory of God their owne honors which in the ende they agréed vnto in the which seruice they so well imployed themselues that they not only holp him to winne Lisbone but many other places thereby placing the king in his kingly seat for which their good seruice the king acknowledging himselfe much bound and beholding vnto them in recompence thereof he indowed them with many priuiledges and fréedomes more than his natural subiects â—nioyed which hee bound both him and his successors kinges of that countrie to kéepe obserue one whereof was that all Dutchmen that would dwell within his Countrie or traffique with in the same should bee free of all impostes and excises for all things that they should vse and haue in their owne houses and for themselues and their familie that they might weare what sort of apparrell and Iewels they would and of what stuffe soeuer with their wiues and families although they were Portingale women which is forbidden to the naturall Portingales for that they haue a law concerning apparrell what kinde of stuffe euerie man according to his estate and qualitie shall weare also to goe by night and at vnaccustomed houres when occasion serued them in all places with fiue or sixe seruants with light or without and with what armes or weapons they would which is not permitted to the inhabitantes themselues that no Iustice should haue power to atach or arest any man in their house or execute any Iustice vpon them for what cause soeuer it were treasoÌ„ only excepted but onlie by their owne law by the king himselfe ordained appointed called Iuis dos-Alemaines or the Dutch law also that their houses might not be taken whether they were hired or their owne fée simples for the kinges seruice or any of his Court as all other his subiects houses are as néed requireth that they might not bee compelled to vse or serue any office in the countrie or for the king as the Portingales doe neyther yet rated to pay any contribution for the common profit of the countrie trauelling through the Countrie should for their monie be serued before any other man with many other such like priueledges which for breuitie I omit onely I haue set downe the principallest of them thereby to shew as their owne Chronicles declare through whome and by whose help the Portingales at this day doe possesse and enioy that which they hold in the said Countrie of Portingale which priuiledges are yet as they haue alwaies béene without anie deniall firmely holden and maintained and by all the kinges successiuely confirmed from time to time with dayly increasing of the same by meanes of the continuall pleasures done vnto the said kings of Portingale by the said Nation as it is well knowne Don Sancho Sonne of the aforesaid king was the second king of Portingale hee was borne in Anno 1154. and crowned king at the age of 31. yeares hee had issue 15. children Sonnes and Daughters and raigned twenty seuen yeares he died in the towne of Coymbra in the yeare of our Lord 1212. being 58. yeares of age and lieth buried in the Cloyster of Santa Crus by his Father Don Afonso the second of that name the third king of Portingale was crowned at the age of 25. yeares he had issue two sonnes in his time liued Saint Dominick Saint Francis and Saint Anthonie he died in anno 1223. lieth buried in the Cloyster of Alcobassa Don Sancho Capello his son fourth king of Portingale was crowned at the age of 16. yeres and died in the towne of Toledo in the yeare of our Lord 1247 and is buried in the great Church of Toledo After his death was chose King his brother the Earle of Bolonhien and was the fifth king of Portingale hee raigned 31. yeres and died in Lisbone in the yeare of our Lord 1279. and is buried in the Cloister of Alcobassa Don Deniis his sonne was Crowned in Lisbone the sixt king of Portingale being of the age of 18. yeares he raigned 46. yeres and died in the towne of Saint Arein in the yeare of our Lord 1325. the 20. of Ianuary being 64. yeares of age and lyeth buried in the Cloyster of Oliuellas which is about 2. miles from Lisbone which he in his life time had erected he maried with Donna Isabella daughter to Don Pedro king of ArragoÌ„ she was cannonised for a Saint her Sepulcher is in the towne of Coymbra which shee builded where her body doth many miracles After him raigned his sonne Don Afonso o Brauo which is the valiant hee was crowned in the towne of Arem at the age of 35. yeares and was the seuenth king of Portingale hee died in Lisbone in the month of May Anno 1356. he lieth buried in the high quire of the great Church hee ouercame the Mores in Salado fighting in aide of the king of Castille His Son Don Pedro was the eight king of Portingale and ruled the land with great Iustice temperante and peace died in the yeare of our Lord 1366. and lieth buried in the Cloyster of Alcobassa hee had issue one sonne called Don Ferdinand and before hee maried he had two bastard sonnes by Dona Ines or Agnes de Castro called Don Ioan and Don Denniis After the death of the aforesaid king Don Ferdinand his son was crowned king and was the ninth king of Portingale he maried Dona Lianor Gonsalues Telles whom he tooke by force from her husband called Larenca Vaaz da Cunha to whome shee was maried and banished him the land neuerthelesse he was verie louing to his subiectes and punished all offenders and vagabondes hée raigned 17. yeares and died without issue in the yeare of our Lord 1383. being of the age of 43 yeares and lieth buried in the quier of S. Francis Church in the towne of S. Arein After this kings death Don Ioan king of Castillia with his wife Dona Beatrix came into Portingale by force to possesse the Crowne of Portingale but Don Ioan bastard son of the aforesaid king Don Pedro bastard brother to Don Ferdinand the last king withstood him and fought with the said king of Castille whome he ouercame in the field called S. Ioris where for a perpetuall memorie of his victorie he erected a great rich Cloyster which hee called the Cloyster of the battaile or victorie because he won the field in the same place against the Castilians This bastard Don Ioan was Crowned king of Portingale being of the age of 31. yeares was the tenth king he liued 76 yeres and died in Anno 1433. the 14. of August and lieth buried in the same Cloyster of