Storia do Mogor 102.7

102.7

I came out of my house and went to the father Prior of the Augustinians, where I made known what the friars were, for I saw now they were full of guile. I told him, as was the truth, that they collected alms not for the convent, but for themselves. They had tried to levy from my purse three thousand rupees; but as I did not wish to give them this money, they invented falsehoods about me. They supposed I wanted to get married, whereas the thought of it had never entered my head. The father Prior approved what I said, and extracted from the hands of the fugitives the alms collected, writing to the convent of the said friars at Goa as to what he had done. He gave orders in his convent of the Augustinians for the preparation of a satisfactory account of the money. The said father Prior made complaint to me for my not having denounced them as absconders. I replied that under the impression that they intended to do better deeds than those they had committed in the Mogul country, I judged myself under an obligation to screen my neighbour's faults; but finding that they were acting worse than before, I held it now opportune to declare the truth.