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 ANGLO-PORTUGUESE TREATY IN INDIA 209 pean diplomacy had failed to secure peace between the Christian nations in Asia. So, in 1634, the Viceroy of Goa and the English president at Surat took the matter into their own hands and entered into di»ect negotia- tions. They signed a formal truce, which in 1635 they »s A TEAK - WOOD HOU8E AT 8URAT. developed into a commercial convention on the basis of the ineffective Madrid treaty of 1630. Two English ships were annually to obtain a cargo at Goa, two more might load at other Portuguese factories. The long promised liberum commercium between the English and Portuguese in India became an accomplished fact.