_ 358 _ Worship, which is very important which has always seemed to me that solely in the councils of India lies one of her greatest dangers, and there is greater reason for this to be certain when some one, or many of those that enter in are persons of great honours and dignities, self constituted to possess lofty judgment and presumptous when all things go down the hill, and this, owing to the great difference, that exists between Governors and having a Prince, in those presence and majesty none would dare to state, or affirm, aught else but what be the opinion of all and this I state to Your Worship on account of what I went through in Goa with the Bishop of India in a Council respecting the Peace or War the King of Calicut and the whole of Malabar. In which I served the King our Lord, as will in some measure be now known, from when I infer that deputies in India to be always in Council is another plague worse that disastrous because in the seats of war in such a great conquest as that of India, there is daily discovered men of judgement who are competent to rule rather than those over there, hence the choice of these, as being more proper seems to be the question at issue. I could discourse very largely on this matter out of
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