Storia do Mogor 312: THE SEVENTH ARTICLE.

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[133] That the defendant being at a certain time in company of certain persons, both Catholics and heretics, among other conversation they came to talk of the collect in the Mass where they pray to God for the Pope. The defendant said that in the collect referred to he did not pray to God for the Pope first, but first of all for the Agent of the English within whose territory he dwelt, and in the second place for the King of France. Thereupon a certain Catholic then present told him to be careful of what he said, that first of all we ought to pray to God for the Pope, because he was the Sovereign Pontiff and the Head of the Church. The defendant said once more that he did not name the Pope first, but the ruler of the place where he lived, and after him the King of France. By this the said person was much scandalized, and had no good opinion of the defendant.