The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c27.139

v1.c27.139

In the meantime, he wished to appoint Dom Bernardo de Noronha, Captain of St. Thome; for he wrote to the King to this effect on December 26th, 1613. On the matter being proposed to his councillors, Dom Bernardo was elected and "thus I declared to him", says Dom Jeronymo, "that I would give him as much (money) as I could take from the State, with the same regulations as the Captain of Ormuz has, and the authority over that city and the whole of that coast, which is ordinarily given to the Captain-Generals of the fleet". But in spite of the earnest entreaties of the Viceroy, of the Archbishop and of other nobles such as Dom Luiz da Gama, Dom Bernardo de Noronha refused the appointment ³. The Viceroy, however, still hoped to send Dom Bernardo to St. Thome; but at the end of the following year he received two letters from his sovereign, in which Philip III disapproved of such an appointment. "Hence" says the Viceroy, "I did not think of it any more" ⁴. Nothing further touching this matter is found during the life of Venkata II.