Storia do Mogor 359.2.5

359.2.5

Decide now, gentlemen, how far we are guilty and have deserved to be treated as scandalous persons — 'The Reverend Fra Spirito came out with a despairing and scandalous resolution.' Decide how far we are culprits, that we should be branded as liars — 'Without order of His Holiness or mine, as they falsely allege.' Decide in what we have sinned, that we should be [236] dealt with as disobedient persons — 'I have not given permission to your Reverence, neither in thought, still less in words.' Decide how far we are of evil mind, that we should be called over-bold — 'Nor was the Pastoral issued to hinder the decrees, but to repress the temerity with which the Reverend Father Spirito,' etc.