[57] The racionero and medio racionero are prebendaries of Spanish cathedrals, ranking in the order named.

[58] The fourth vow of the Jesuits binds to implicit obedience in going wherever the pope orders them to go for the salvation of souls.  The other three vows are the same as those professed by other religious.

[59] The original is “todos alcaran luego de eras,” literally “all will immediately finish their harvesting of grain.”

[60] Pyrard de Laval says—­in his Voyage (Hakluyt Society’s publications, London, 1887-88), ii, pp. 256, 257:  “When one is making a voyage from Goa, one says to which quarter one is going, whether to the south or the north coast.  ‘The north’ is from Goa to Cambaye, ‘the south’ from Goa to the Cape of Comori....  From Bassains [Bacani of our text; the modern Bassein] comes all the timber for building houses and vessels; indeed, most of the ships are built there.  It also supplies a very fine and hard free stone, like granite; ...  All the magnificent churches and palaces at Goa and the other towns are built of this stone.”  The editors of the Voyage add:  “Bassein, twenty-six miles north of Bombay, was ceded to the Portuguese in 1536.  It became the favorite resort of the wealthier Portuguese, the place being noted for handsome villas and pretty gardens.  It was taken by the Mahrattas in 1739, after a siege of three months, in which the Portuguese, for the last time in India, fought with stubborn courage.”  Bassein was captured by the British in 1780.  The term “Mogors” in the text refers to some of the kings who were vassals of the Great Mogul (Vol.  XVII, p. 252).

[61] Diego de Pantoja, born in 1571, became a novice in the Jesuit order at the age of eighteen.  Seven years later he embarked to join the mission in Japan; but on reaching Macao he was assigned as companion to the noted Jesuit missionary, Mateo Ricci, and the two founded the mission of Pekin.  Being later expelled from the kingdom, Pantoja died at Macao in January, 1618 (Sommervogel).  Ricci died at Pekin in May, 1610.  In the archives not only of Spain, but of Italy, France, and England, are many and voluminous documents referring to the Catholic missions in China.  The Jesuit missions there are very fully recounted in Lettres edifiantes.

[62] See Henry Yule’s account of “Nestorian Christianity in China,” in his Cathay and the Way Thither (Hakluyt Society’s publications, London, 1866), pp. lxxxviii-ci; cf. pp. clxxxi-iii, and 497.  Regarding the Jews in China, see ut supra, pp. lxxx, 225, 341, 497, 533.