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1613
ANDREAS, a Sancta Maria, bishop of Cochin. Histoire miraculeuse et tres certaine, enuoyee à D. Frere André de S. Marie de Cochin, en laquelle est rapporté qu’es Indes de Portugal, se trouve un homme marié agé de 380 ans, lequel a esté marié huict fois: à qui par deux fois les dents sont tombees & apres revenues. Traduict d’Italien en François, par le sieur François de Vezelize. Paris: Estienne Perrin, 1613, 12pp.
This short text is the story told by the Bishop of Cochin about a man from the port de Vengalarauge who was aged 380 years. There is some discussion about longevity around the la Ganga and a place called Regora. The full title of the text is a resumé of the story.
1614
GONZALEZ DE MENDOZA, Juan. Histoire du grand royaume de la Chine. Situé aux Indes Orientales. Rouen: Angot, 1614, 459 pp.
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The majority of this book centres on Chine. However, there are a number of chapters towards the end which describe other royaumes in the Indes Orientales. Chapter XXIII (p. 373) is about Gange; Chapter XXIII (p. 376), Royaume de Coromandel including Calamine and Bisnague; Chapter XXV (p. 380), Goa, Cochin, Coulan; Chapter XXVI (p. 384), Cananor, Calicut, Mangalor and then Ormus and the Red Sea (p. 386).
1615
MENDOÇA, Hernando. Advis de ce qu’il y a à reformer en la Compagnie des Jesuites presenté au Pape a la Congregation Generalle, par le Pere Hernando de Mendoca, du meme Ordre. Ensemble plusieurs lettres des Indes Orientales. [n.p.], 1615, 40 pp.
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The text was reviewed as a hard copy at the BL, but a digital copy is now available online. This text is part of a collection of letters and writings about the Catholic Church. The book has no continuous page numbering. This reference refers to a section approximately 2/3 through the book (numbered in pencil as 19) and the relevant section about India is on pp. 17-40. This section is a collection of letters translated from Portuguese into French and sent from Goa in 1608/9 about the church in that part of India.