Storia do Mogor 338.11.3

338.11.3

After there had been great discussions with the Reverend Father Friar Diogo do Sacramento about the silver, the Very Reverend the Vicar-General of the Bishop of Mailãpur sent a Portuguese called Joaõ Coelho Colembro to say on his behalf to the Reverend Father Friar Michel Ange that as a friend he advised him to take no part in the dispute over the silver plate of the brothers of the Rosary. If he did, he, the Vicar-General, would be compelled to include him in the declaration that he was on the point of publishing against the said brothers. This notice very much astonished the Father Friar Michel Ange, for it gave him clearly to understand that at San Thome it was talked of or was presumed, that in the future he meant to defend the silver. But from the very first, when the Lord Abate had sent the Very Reverend Friar Laurent from San Thome to speak to him about it, he being then in Madras, he had told the brothers that it concerned them to defend their plate if they so pleased. But neither he nor his colleagues [179] would do so in any shape, nor was it fitting for them to interfere. After that answer, the brothers from that time sent persons to inform the Lord Abate about the facts of the case, and they commenced their suit at Pondicherry. In all this the brothers of Madras never involved the Father Friar Michel Ange in any way.