[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 366.1.3 # Storia do Mogor 366.1.3 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 366.1.3 - **Language:** English ### [366.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.366.1.3) For he could not have imagined that religious were capable of committing such an impious act in the execution of their designs. Even if it were not by reason of the calumny that his Lordship sent out the said Pastoral, I assert that there is no less contradiction in that document than in the Declaration, since the Bull of Clement X. and the Instruction of the Sacred Congregation, both of them issued to the Vicars Apostolic of the Indies, which are quoted by his Lordship to prove that he had power to do all he has done, are quoted out of place. In making use of them for the commission \[295\] of an injustice, he not only makes an abusive use of sacred things, but dishonours equally the court of Rome and the Sacred Congregation, who have never asserted that their authority could be invoked unless in things which were true and not false. It is in regard to a falsity, however, that the Lord Bishop and the reverend Jesuit fathers make use of these authorities. This I will demonstrate to you so plainly that there will be left no one who could have a doubt, even the very slightest. I begin with the Bull of Clement X., of which these are the precise words, which I have taken from the Pastoral of his Lordship; its opening words are 'Decet Romanum Pontificem' \[It behoves the Pope of Rome\]. The words which follow are these: - [Previous: 366.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.366.1.2) - [Next: 366.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.366.1.4) - [Up: 366.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.366.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.366.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.366.1.3) · Pramāṇa