Storia do Mogor 340.3.3

340.3.3

Some months after this event the bride's father came from Manila and learnt what had been done. He concealed his feelings for some days, then went to see his daughter and his son-in-law at their house. He took possession of the girl, and sent the bridegroom about his business, telling him there was no marriage between them, and that he meant to marry her there in Hindu fashion to some one to whom she had been betrothed. This occurrence was the cause that the man became a pervert with some forty other persons. When the bridegroom found this to be so, he, too, presented a petition to the Lord Bishop, either that the relations be compelled to hand over to him his wife, or that he be given permission to marry someone else. But the Bishop would give no decision whatever. So the bride was married to some one else, and the first husband was deprived of a wife. In this same province of Karnãtik, in the Christian community of Madura, under the fathers of the Society (the Jesuits), there was a married Malabar [Tamil] native. This man had four sons. He was in distress, and unable, where he lived, to find any means of supporting his family. Leaving them in charge of a neighbour, he made for Negapatam to see if he could find any employment. Having found something to do there, after a month he asked leave of absence from the person he was serving, and returned to his home at Madura to fetch his wife and children.