Storia do Mogor 359.1.5

359.1.5

Gentlemen, I claim here your whole attention, because this affair touches us to the very quick, and we are so wounded by it that it is necessary for the whole world to be informed of it. On November 3, 1706, at about five or six o'clock in the evening, the Reverend Fathers De la Breuille and Turpé, both Jesuits, presented a letter to the Reverend Father Esprit of Tours, Superior of the Pondicherry Capuchins. The address was in French, in the handwriting of Father Mauricet (Moriset), also a Jesuit; the letter was sealed with the seal of the Reverend Father Tachard. The last named has testified that the letter was from him, a fact that many of you gentlemen have graciously signified to us in the shape of affidavits. Afterwards the Lord Bishop of San Thomé, who, according to jus, natural and divine, was bound to sift the matter to the very foundation before pronouncing upon it, wrote to your Council that the Reverend Father Esprit had thrown contemptuously on the ground a letter written to him by his Lordship. 'I will write to the Reverend Father Friar Spirito to satisfy you gentlemen, but there was a letter I wrote exhorting him to make peace and be quiet; taking it, he threw it to the ground with contempt, and declined to receive it. Thus you gentlemen ought not to desire me to expose myself to his further anger and rudeness.'