Storia do Mogor 364.4

364.4

[287] Before discussing the methods which ought to be adopted against us in case of disobedience, I beg you to bestow your attention on the first three lines of the said letter, where his Lordship accuses us of refusing credence to his words. He granted permission to the Reverend Father Michel Ange for the publication of the decrees in our church at Pondicherry, and after we had published them he wrote in his Pastoral that we had acted without his permission. After that, how can we place reliance upon what he says? Messieurs Cesare and Khwãjah Ovanes presented a petition to his Lordship on behalf of the Father Guardian of the Capuchins. After he had accepted it and promised to those gentlemen that he would send it on after comparison, three days afterwards he returned it unauthenticated. Now, how can you expect us to believe in what he promises to do? You will find it too much for you, perhaps, to believe that a bishop can be false to his word. Here, then, is the affidavit given to us by the above-named gentlemen, Cesare and Khwãjah Ovanes. 'We, the undersigned, certify that, seeing we were told by the Very Reverend Father Frey Laurent of Angoulesme how the Most Illustrious Lord Bishop of Meliapur would not listen to any representations about his petitions, he (Father Laurent) asked us to take the above petition and present it; whence we did present the same on November 24, 1706, and the said Most Illustrious Bishop accepted it.