Storia do Mogor 338.17.8

338.17.8

As the soldiers referred to had never seen such a ceremonial in the Roman Church, they were visited with scruples, and went to inform the Father Friar Spirito, Capuchin, chaplain of the Fort church. They gave him a minute description of all that had taken place. The father took the soldiers as witnesses before some of the principal officials of the Compagnie Royale, so that they might learn the truth and write to France an account of the thing. The officials answered him that they were traders, that they had to conduct the business of the Compagnie Royale, that they had no desire to mix themselves up in the Jesuits' affairs. If they were to write such things, orders would come from France expelling them from the service, they would lose their credit, and be persecuted for the rest of their lives.