Storia do Mogor 344.1.6

344.1.6

Already the benevolent reader will have observed in my Third Part (IV. yy to Si) what I had done to help the Christians of Tanjor during their persecutions. However, the Jesuits were not content with my action, nor would they acquiesce in my advice, but preferred that their own extreme opinions should be accepted. They enlisted the aid of the Lord Bishop of Mailãpur, Dom Gaspar Affonço. This prelate, during the visit he paid to Dã,ud Khãn (IV. 246a), begged him to write a letter to the Prince of Tanjor in favour of the Jesuit Fathers. They wanted the Nawãb to force the said prince to rebuild the churches and grant complete liberty in his territory to the said fathers for the exercise of their office; also that there should be no hindrance in passing along in palanquins, and other minutiae. Dã,úd Khãn, a man of high courtesy, wrote the letter, well foreseeing that by this conduct he stood to lose nothing. The prince sent him a valuable present, and replied to his letter by saying that he was a tributary and vassal of the Mogul emperor.