Storia do Mogor 358.1.7

358.1.7

By this detail you can see, gentlemen, that they bring forward quite out of place the Sacred Council of Trent, since this proves to be opposed to the bishop's intention. But since the Lord Bishop of San Thome and the reverend Jesuit fathers allege the Sacred Council of Trent as the justification for their conduct, and as proof of the good grounds they had for taking away from the Capuchin fathers the said mission to the Malabãrís, I would beg them to tell me how it is necessary to understand those words, which you will find, gentlemen, in Caput 9, Sessio 25, 'De Reformatione,' where can be read in clear and plain words that cures and benefices, et cetera, which have been acquired 'per subreptionem' (clandestinely), and by illegitimate means, ought [215] to be replaced in the hands of those who previously possessed them. 'Quae vero [accessiones] a quadraginta citra annis factae, effectum, et plenam incorporationem sunt consectuae; hae nihilominus ab Ordinariis, tamquam a Sede Apostolica delegatis, revideantur, et examinentur; acquae per subreptionem, vel obreptionem' (Reflect well, gentlemen, on these terms, I beg of you) 'obtentae fuerint, simul cum unionibus irritae declarentur;