Storia do Mogor 297: III. Extract from Fort St. George General Letter to the Court of Directors, January 14, 1651.

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'To requite the Portugalls affront in betraying the French Fryer to their bloody inquisition, wee, in Februarie last [1651], made seizure of their Padree Governor resolveing to detain him untill the other were sett at liberty but about 4 mos. after Vizt. the 11th of June [1651] in the dead of a darke night hee was conveyed over our walls with the laceing of a cott and treachery of one Richard Bradbury our Drummer who for that present had the round and charge of the watch, and soe they escaped both to St. Thomey, noe oppertunity since presenting [of] a reprisall keepeing themselves close within their walls, however our pursuance in vindication of this injury supported with the assistance of the President and Councell in Surrat and approved of by the other President and Councell in Bantam, hath effected the said Fryers liberty, as wee have bin lately advised by letters under his owne hand, brought hither by one Sigr. Fransisco Vera, an eminent Fidalgoe of that Nation and knowne freind to ors in the South Seas on whose ernest mediation for renewing a correspondencie with our Neighbours of St. Thomey, wee have condiscended to some Articles of Agreement (relateing to the Generall peace) that if possible wee may leive the more quietly with such insolent people, wee shall observe the caution touching Fryers and Jesuits whose smooth oratory cannot seduce us though beleeve now againe wee shal be too much troubled with their frequat Vissits.' [O.C. No. 2246.]