Storia do Mogor 361.1.6

361.1.6

even publish it clearly in the face of heaven and of earth: we give you free license. But if you know us innocent, then have for us the same consideration that you have for the reverend Jesuit fathers, and when they take our business in hand, do not pay more deference to Portuguese or Savoyard prelates than to those of France. For, to sum up, it is a barbarous thing that Father Laurent of Angoulesme, Vice-Provincial in India, for having published in our church a provisional order about our cure issued by the Lord Bishop in his favour, should find himself forthwith summoned to appear before your Council and called upon to state by what authority he had acted ; while the reverend Jesuit fathers, who have published in their church an excommunication launched against the Reverend Father Esprit by the self-same bishop, have not been cited, like Father Laurent of Angoulesme, to file any answer. Nay, on the contrary, it would seem that they have received your plaudits, while we are derided. It is a cruel measure that a patriarch from Savoy, and a bishop from Portugal — the latter country at this moment at war with France — should discharge their weapons at us poor Capuchin fathers ;