_ 333 _ When you commence your procession, the banners will go in front and the city’s banner will be on the flagstaff close to you. Yours will go before the city’s banner, because my standard bearer always goes in front, and only the royal banner is on the flagstaff when it goes forth. On the way the aldermen and masters will always walk next to you. As the crowd will be very large, you are to make quite sure that they are always close to you. In front, between you and the city banner, your companion, the friar will walk with the cross which he carried into the battle at Qishm(A), for these are the arms and the device whereby we achieved, with the help of God, so many favours and victories. Before you come to me, you are to enter the Misericórdia to give thanks to Our Lord for the favour he has granted you. You will return by the Rua Direita [Straight Street] and across Sabaio’s Square(B), and you are to go directly to the Cathedral, then to St Francis’ Church to give thanks to Our (A) Qishm. Gaspar Correia writes, “the Governor made great ceremony of this victory in order to conceal his sorrow at the loss of Aden.” (Lendas, IV, p. 650). (B) This was the name of the great square in front of the former palace of the Sabaio, (Yusuf Adil Khan) from whom Afonso de Albuquerque captured Goa.
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