Storia do Mogor 265.18.4

265.18.4

This discord lasts up to this day without anyone succeeding in stopping it. The friars wander outside their convents, do not obey their priors; they scatter themselves over the kingdoms of the Mahomedans, live as they please, and are bound by no scruples. There was a similar quarrel in the convent of the Carmelites, but in the course of time they were reconciled. During the viceroyalty of Antonio de Mello de Castro, in sixty-five (1665), the Dominicans also began a disturbance of the same sort. The viceroy was desirous of putting a stop to it, but they paid no heed to him. He ordered out pieces of artillery to knock down the convent. To pacify him and avert this damage the lord archbishop and the inquisitors acted as mediators, and they quickly brought the parties to terms. On the part of the Jesuits no such behaviour occurred, for they ruled their concerns with more prudence. If among them any difference arises, it is kept such a secret that no one hears of it. All the same, a notable case happened among them, during the time that the government was held by the viceroy Dom Bras de Castro. It was this: there came to Goa a favourite of Sultan Muhammad 'Adil Shah, King of Bijapur, to be treated medically. He was in charge of the royal jewels, and he brought from the royal treasury a precious stone of great price. On it he borrowed twenty thousand asharfis (gold coins) from Father Gonsallo Martins, Jesuit, known widely as a great money-dealer.