_ 193 _ we are there, is the principal one in which we serve God, I emphasized and demanded that they should provide for our needs: but they remembered no one less than us, and I think that they all deserve to be reprimanded. The supply of preachers and confessors in the most important thing of all. May Your Lordship bless me, and may God protect Your Lordship. From Goa, 29 December 1605. Your Lordship’s servant. Fr. João da Rocha (On the back): To the Archbishop Primate in his city of Braga. From Fr. João da Rocha. (There is a drawing which appears to be the sketch-plan of a convent.) 23 Isfahan, 27 December 1608 Letter from Fr. Antonio de Gouveia to Philip III. “Copy of a letter for Your Majesty from Fr. Antonio de Gouveia written in Isfahan on 27 December last”.(A) By order of Your Majesty the Archbishop Governor sent me to attend this court of the King of Persia, together with another destroyed two armies, and I sent from the world Sinan Pasha, who was so great an enemy of Christians. I have not rested for seven years, but you all rest so much (A) [Translators note: This letter is written in Spanish].
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