The estates, empires, & principallities of the world Represented by ye description of countries, maners of inhabitants, riches of prouinces, forces, gouernment, religion; and the princes that haue gouerned in euery estate. With the begin[n]ing of all militarie and religious orders. Translated out of French by Edw: Grimstone, sargeant at armes.

¶ The Religion.

[ B] AT Goa they haue libertie of conscience, where there is to be seene among the Portu∣gals, [ XIII] Moores, I••wes, Armenians, Gusa••ates, Ba••janes, Bramins, and other Indians, which liue there after their owne manner, and according to their owne religion, but that they are not suffered to burne men dead or aliue, nor to celebrat their marriages, or to make shew of their deuilish superstitions: whereof the Bishop hath a speciall care, for feare of scandalizing the new Christians. But if any one after he hath bene baptised re∣turnes to Paganisme, he is put into the Inquisition, to be punished according to the In∣quisitors sentence. There are many Arabians, Persians, and Abyssins, which do partly fol∣low the Christian religion, and partly that of the Moores, who obserue the pernitious law of Mahomet. The Moores eat all things indifferently, except hogs flesh, and they are [ C] buried after the manner of the Iewes. Some among the Decanins, Gularates, and Ca∣narins abstaine from eating of beefe, or the flesh of Bugles. Many worship the Sunne and Moone, yet they acknowledge one onely God, creator of all things. Finally, there are many churches and monasteries at Goa, but there is not any one of religious women, for that there is no meanes to persuade the Indian women to chastitie. There is an Arch∣bishop, who hath vnder him all the Bishops of the East Indies, and there is also an In∣quisition as in Spaine.