The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c27.144

v1.c27.144

The shrewd traders of the Netherlands were aware that their main enemies at the court of Venkata were the Jesuits. So when they heard shortly after that the Jesuits had left that place for good (as will be narrated in the following chapter) they took this opportunity to press their demands on the King; who being now old and weak and shorn of Jesuit support, finally consented. According to a letter of Dom Jeronymo d’ Azevedo to Philip III, of 1613, this concession to the Dutch would never have been made, had the Jesuits been then at Venkata’s court¹. This event took place at the end of 1606. But the agreement was not signed until the month of April of the following year. This document, translated from the Dutch, runs as follows: