The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c27.115

v1.c27.115

13. This friendship between Venkata and the Portuguese seems to have come to an abrupt end in 1611, when the former besieged the city of St. Thome. The Viceroy, Dom Jeronymo d’Azevedo, in a letter to his sovereign dated 1613, (month not given), says that the origin of this war ‘was due to the absence of the Jesuits’ from Venkata’s court ³. They had been removed from it shortly before ⁴. A Jesuit letter of 1611 gives a full account of this unfortunate affair.