Storia do Mogor 364.5

364.5

But upon his being requested by us to pass an order on it, he declined to do so then, telling us that he would send us the petition after the order had been passed, and we might rely upon his word. In spite of all these promises, two days afterwards — that is, on the 26th of the said month — he sent it to us without any order endorsed on it.' The Reverend Father Michel Ange presented a petition to his Lordship wishing to know from his own mouth the reason for which he had taken from us the cure of the Malabāris and given it to the reverend Jesuit fathers. He replied that it was done on the initiative of the general, Monsieur Martin, who told him that thus His Most Christian Majesty wished and had ordained. Here is his answer to the question of the Reverend Father Michel Ange: