The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c28.26

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Thus the Fathers enjoyed from that time an annual income of one thousand gold pieces³. This constituted the main source of the revenue of the College at St. Thome, and on it the Chandragiri mission depended¹. The rest of the College revenue was paid by the *adigar* of Mylapore, who was himself a very good friend of the Jesuits : he gave them annually three hundred gold pieces out of the tribute the inhabitants of St. Thome paid to the Nayak of Tanjore². But from the year 1603 this yearly income, so kindly made over to the Fathers by order of Venkata, ceased, as we gather from a letter of Fr. M. Roiz written in 1606³, and from another of Fr. A. Rubino, of 1609⁴. The reason of this change may be gathered from a letter of the Viceroy of Goa, Dom Jeronymo d' Azevedo; who, writing to Philip III said that the lands that had yielded the income had been destroyed⁵. And it seems that no other source of revenue was assigned by Venkata for the maintenance of the Fathers in the following years.