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advanced age his reign could not be a long one ; and in 1564 or he put in a claim to the sovereignty, at the same time bringing serious
1565,00 his death, his son, “ Ferragoxa,” succeeded to the throne. accusations against the wife of “ Mamede Xd” (who was the widow of
Cesare Federici was present at the ceremony, which he describes “ Torruxd” and “ Ferruxd”), and also against that king himself. (Ant.
(Voyage and Trauaile\of M. C. Fredericke, p. 4). In the Archivo Gouvea, in his Rcla^am, Pt. r, p. 9, speaks of a “Dorn Hieronymo
V Portuguez-Oriental, fasc. 5, p. 693, is an alvard, dated iSth March, Joete” as a grandson of “ TuruxjY1 and the rightful heir to the throne,
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15^9) granting to King “ Faragoxil” the rights accorded to :t Turuxd;” which he had renounced in order to enter the Church. This “Dorn
and on pp. 758-760 of the same fasciculus is another alvard, dated Jeronimo” and his father, “ Xeque Yoette,” “ Xeque Jocttc,” or “Coje
10th February, 1571, embodying the translation of a farm do of 8th Zoete,” are referred to in several royal letters to the Viceroys of India,
April, 1565, issued by “ Faroquoxd,” who refers to his father printed in Arch. Port. Or., fasc. 3, pp. *72, 212,482, 586, 678. I cannot
“ Mamuxd” and cousin “Turuxd.” This “Faragoxd” reigned for identify this man.) All these claims, however, were solved by the
! many years. Gasparo Balbi, who visited Hormuz in 1580, gives the termination of the Hormuz dynasty of kings, on the capture of the
name of the king as “ Siafirusia Gielaledi” (Viaggio dell' Indie island in 1622 by the Anglo-Persian force, as stated above. “ Mamede
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Orientali, p. 47). Teixeira refers to him as “Ferragut Xd” and Xd” was still “ reigning” when that event took place ; and in Purchas
?l:i “Ferrogotxa” (see supra, p. 166, and infra, Appendix B). Couto, in his Pilrrimcs, vol. ii, p. 1802, will be found the translation of a letter
Dec. XII, Liv. II, cap. 1, tells us that at the beginning of 1598 from him to the King of Spain, dated February 12th, 1621, complain­
“Ferugoxa,”.being old and decrepit, wished to abdicate in favour of ing of the misdeeds of the Captain of Hormuz. The King of Hormuz
his second son, “ Mamedexa,” whose mother was a sister of the and all his suite were deported to the mainland as captives by the
ai'i wazir. This, however, was not permitted by the Viceroy in Council, Persians (LAmbassade de G. dc Silva Figueroa, p. 470); but in 1624
h and the old king was informed that he must allow his elder son the king was reported to be “still living at Ormuz” {Calendar of State
Ii!, “Feruxa” to reign in his stead, and that he was to try and arrange a Papers, East Indies, etc., 1625-1629, p. 60). Whether this were so or
1 ; marriage between this son and a daughter of the wazir. The second not, need not concern us: the “ kingdom” of Hormuz had gone for
1 this matter ; but from royal letters to the Viceroys of India, printed in
part of this Decade never having been written, we learn no more of
ever.—d. F.]
Doc. Rem., tom. i (pp. 16, 53, 382), it would appear that the old king
1 when “ Mir Firruxa” was appointed to succeed him. One of those
continued to govern until his death, apparently at the end of 1601,
1609, and the elevation to the throne of a brother of his, who, we learn
!i< letters (p. 382) informs us of the death of “Ferruxd” in February,
ii from later letters in tom. ii (pp. 388, etc.), was named “ Mamede Xd,”
I: evidently the same as the one referred to by Couto above. From this
I1 and other letters (tom. i, pp. 14, 53, 80, 365 ; tom. ii, pp. 38, 148, 406),
however, it seems that, on the death of “ Farracoxa” and the procla­
sin- mation as his successor of “ Mir Firruxd,” the right of the latter to
I the throne was challenged by his younger brother “ Mirturuxd” (called
also “Turruxd”), on the grounds that he was a bastard, and that his
father, when he married the daughter of “ Raix Nordim,” had executed
! a deed whereby he constituted their eldest son his heir. This
“Turruxd,” who was residing at Goa, and professed a leaning to
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i Christianity, petitioned the King of Spain, and the matter was referred
to the high court; but in 1606 or 1607, during the governorship of
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n. the Archbishop D. Fr. Aleixo de Menezes, the prince was convicted
of sodomy and burnt at the stake (see Pyrard, vol. ii, pp. 91, 243-244). i
i For some reason, the elevation to the throne of “ Mamede Xd” did not
r meet with the approval of the King of Spain, and he issued a decree
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fathers claim to the throne (Doc. Re?n., tom. i, pp. 363, 3S3 ; tom. ii,
|f granting to the two sons of “ Turruxd” authority to prosecute their
pp. 38, 148, 406 ; Archivo Portuguez-Oriental, fasc. 6, p. 841). From
$< ; a letter in Doc. Rem., vol. ii (p. 360), we find that “Farracoxd” left
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two other sons by the sister of the wazir “ Rais Nordim,” their names
:i!‘ being given as “ Mir Farracoxd” and “ Mir Samgolxdbut they do
l: not appear to have laid any claim to the throne. From other docu­
»■ ments, however (Doc. Rem., tom. ii, pp. 381, 406 ; tom. iii, p. 428 ;
?• ' tom. iv, p. 356; Archivo Portuguez-Onenial, fasc. 6, pp. 1119, 1163),
V • it seems that the eldest son of “Farracoxd,” who is called41 Miramofa-
v 1 lisxd” and “ Miramofles,” had been passed over in the succession, and
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