Storia do Mogor 344.3.2

344.3.2

However, he did not leave matters there. For, with the assistance of two companies of soldiers furnished by the general, Manoel Saldanha, he turned out the new inhabitants by main force and burnt the new settlement. The Jesuits were annoyed at this action of the general, and drew up against him a paper of complaints, styling him a tyrant for having burnt their new village and causing them damage to the extent of twenty thousand crowns (cruzados), that being the valuation thereof. They said he had burnt the church with the holy images and a large crucifix. This plaint was sent to the court of Lisbon, and when the general arrived there he was cited on account of these misdeeds. He cleared himself, however, very easily, proving the justice of his cause by testimony worthy of implicit faith. This fidalgo came back to India as admiral of the Portuguese fleet, when he was denounced by the Jesuits to the Viceroy of Goa, Francesco de Távora, who was his personal enemy. Their calumnies, however, did not succeed, for the admiral pointed out that no one, with the exception of His Royal Majesty of Portugal himself, could proceed against general officers for any crime they had committed.