Anno 1540.
The City Ghent in Flanders was in Rebellion, on account of a new Tax laid towards de∣fraying * 1.1 the Charge of the War. The Emperor resolving to repair thither in Person, to gain time took his way through France. Henry and Charles, that Kings two Sons, came to meet him on the Borders of the Kingdom, and the King himself accompanied him from Orleans to Paris. It was a desperate Action of the Emperor, to put himself into his Ene∣mies Power. It is reported there was a design to stop him, but God delivered him from so great a Danger. Being come to Ghent, he punished such as were most faulty, and rai∣sed a Cittadel to curb that People.
About the same time died John the Vayvod, who called himself King of Hungary. He left a new-born Son called Stephen, in Defence of whom the Turks made great Havock in that Kingdom.
Ebora, a City in Portugal, was at the Suit of that King made an Archiepiscopal See. The Bishoprick of Silves was made Subject to it. That Dignity was conferred upon Car∣dinal * 1.2 Henry, the King's Brother, who after the Death of King Sebastian his Nephew came to be King.
Pope Paul the first time confirmed and approved of the Order of the Jesuits. His Bull was passed at Rome on the 27th of September. This Order was Instituted by the Holy Fa∣ther * 1.3 Ignacius de Loyola, a Native of the Province of Guipuzcoa, and of singular Sanctity of Life. This Year, on the 12th of September, happened the memorable Battel, wherein D. Bernar din de Mendoça, General of the Spanish Galleys, overthrew the Turks near the Island of Alboran.