Storia do Mogor 311: ANSWER TO THE SIXTH ARTICLE.

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[132] This drunkard brought me a letter, and I told him the man who wrote it was mad if he believed I was able to hinder the English clergyman from baptizing the child of one of the principal Englishmen within his own country.—I knew that the writer [133] was the Father Governor of San Thomé, Hyeronimo de Saa, who boasted he had studied theology, and asserted with unexampled audacity that the English clergyman was a layman. I said that for my part I would not venture to affirm such a thing; it might well be the case that he had the qualification of priest, as I have already said. But this witness was such an honest man as to be well known in this country as a liar, a pimp, a gross liver, a drunkard, and a manslayer. But if the three governors that I had seen at San Thomé, or the Reverend Father Lucas de la Croix, inquisitor, or the Reverend Father Emmanuel de Saint Joseph, said that his testimony was worthy of credence, I too was satisfied to let it be received. It should be noticed that these three charges above given all proceed from this man of worth.