‘The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies’ [‎246] (267/508)

ihe Travels of Peter D|eU(t\VaUfe,
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britl Prattolus, who relate^ their Original and Rites;' Befides
thcTc of Rujjora, chereare other zt Hhavetza, which is neer Baf-
Jpra^-pHreCyi S^njctfr^ and many other places of Perfia $ a-
n^ovinun^ as tUey fay, to ipariiy thoufand Families; yet in Hha-
^l^^tlVe^e are rfl^re then in any place, jejie, where they have a
jptaVe'inhabited ^only by themfelves, calVd Kinmalavd^ or, as
tl^mfplve pronqancc ^t^C/j/w^/^^reading the Letter K widi
tji^o'und of Ch. Here liv^ certain of their chief Priefts, Monks,
arrJ F.Mhops, whpm they all Chanzaba, and by whom they are
^oyern'd in Religion. I believe they have there (bme kind of
Church, Sacrilice, and all other things better then at M^jfora •
yet becaule I cannot fpeak either upon my own knowlcdg 3 or any
fufficlent 8c credible information,! (hall not relate any thing more
ofthem 5 although I had once a fervant of the fame Nationjborn
in KiuMalava nezv Hhaveiza, who amongO: them was caird Ro-
hebj but. being afterwards re-baptiz'd by our Religious, was
nam'd Giovanni'Rob eh. I (hall only add concerning Bafiora^ that
of late dayes the City hath been more frequented with the trade
ofthePortugalsof India^ (to wit, fince thelofs of five
of whole Ships at my being there continually rode in :the River
tq defend the place from the attempts of the common enemy
the Perjian. Upon the conflux of many - European Chriftians
hither, the bare-footed Carmelite-Fathers ot Perfia firll:, and af
terwards the Portugal Augujiines of Goa have built two Churches,
.^Hner Order one, wherein the Catholick and Roman Rite is pub-
1 k kly obferv'd., That of the Carmelites, ^he Seat whereof was
partly given tliem by the Eajha^ and partly bought by themfelves,
T found already finifh 't vvitha fmall Cloilfer, and feme Cells for
the Fathers that live there : of its Dedication which hapned in
my time, I fliall [peak below. The Church of the Angnfiines
had not its foundation yet fully laid, and they were in fufpenfe
whethertogoon with the building or no, for fear left the Perj*-
ans fhould one day take Bafora in thefe wars which were on foot.
So that in my time the faid Fathers lived in an hired houfe, which
the Bajha paid fc/i^yet ihey had a Church,or rather an Oratory
t here, wherein Mais, and all Divine Offices were publickly cele
brated. Qf Augnjiines^ there were two at Bajfora , cnewith
the Title of Prior, was alfo Vicar to the ArchbiQiop ofG^j
likevvifc an Fryer,, who, for the fake of the Portugds
that icfcirt to the City of Arabia, pretends to a Jurifdi ^tion,
which he ulurps not without fome intrufion upon the Bare -footed
Cartnelites, notwithftanding the Briefs ot njoft ample Authority
which they have obtain'd of the Pope for thatpurpofe, info-
^ much that in my time the (aid Afignjiine-yiczr publHh't an Ex
communication againfl: all fuch as fliould not confefs at Eafterin
their Church, although they did it in that of the Carmelites 5
and publifh'd his Church to be the Parifti-Church, and not the
other, befides other like contentions between them> not with
out fome prejudice to the Affairs of Religion. The Baflia,
who