Storia do Mogor 309: ANSWER TO THE FIFTH ARTICLE.

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[132] This drunkard, drinking once with some Englishmen, said that the Pope was the successor of our Lord Jesus Christ. On hearing these words those Englishmen began to laugh and make fun of him. For my part I reproved him for attempting to talk about religion, seeing he was so ignorant. I handed to him a paper written in Latin, in which I stated that Roman Catholics acknowledged the Pope as vicegerent of our Lord Jesus Christ, and St. Peter's successor. I recommended him to show this [paper] to the learned men at San Thome. Why has not this paper been sent on to the Holy Office? The inferences are the inferences of a drunkard.