Storia do Mogor 340.3.4

340.3.4

There he learnt the news that the very neighbour to whom he had confided his family had abducted them, telling the wife her husband had sent for her. Then he carried her off with her sons to Tranquebar, where he sold them all treacherously to the worthy vicar for thirty pagodas. The persons sold were not aware of it. In the end the husband heard of the sale of his wife and sons ; he came to Tranquebar, and made efforts to recover them. The said vicar resisted, and by aid of the governor had the man seized, so that he could make no further attempts beyond effecting his own release. When delivered from prison, he made complaint to the Lord Bishop, but a hearing was refused out of regard for the said vicar. Finally he prayed that he might at least have permission to re-marry, since the said father had already bought his wife and sons. The latter were to be sent to Manila to be sold. Even this privilege was not accorded until he should pay sixty pagodas, when he might take back his wife and sons.