The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 22.3.4

22.3.4

— I sent for the Iesuite and gaue him knowledge of what had happened, desiering him to aduise yt for Goa: and wheras I had written a lettre to the Viceroy, which his Pride Pleased not to answere, if hee, beeing a man of the Church and seeing how vnprosperously they had begunn a warr with vs, would yet admonish them to entertayne those Conditions of truce that were honorable for both Nations and send commissioners hither, I was ready to treate with them: in the Meane tyme to forbare on all Partes actes of hostilitye, and to draw and agree on some articles, with the reasons and pretentions on both sydes, to be Iudged off by our Masters, eyther for an open Warr or a full Peace, at the end of 3 years: but if this Course liked him, I required Honorable and faythfull dealing and expected to see good authoritye and to receiue and giue good securitye for Mutuall performance, for that I was not to be abused with the ould Coulors of a Spanish treaty: if hee refused once more these Christian offers, agreable to the Amytye of our most Royall Masters and their subiectes in the Partes of Europe, I then Professed his obstinacy and Pride enforced mee to declare him a breaker and disturber of the Comon Peace and so would pursue him and his Nation as an enemye. This Meditation [mediation?] the Padre most willingly undertooke, corresponding to his owne desiers and the Necessitie of their affayres.