Storia do Mogor 366.4.2

366.4.2

I do not think, gentlemen, you can doubt that the cure of the Pondicherry Malabārīs was ours until about eight or nine years ago ; neither can you doubt that the reverend Jesuit fathers became masters unjustly of our cure, since you have been ocular witnesses of these facts. You ought not to doubt that the said reverend Jesuit fathers have spoken a very considerable untruth, having falsely alleged the order of his Majesty, as we have already demonstrated, and you can also gather from this manifesto. You ought not to doubt that the same fathers have imposed on us the most infamous of all calumnies, since you have recognised this yourselves, and many of your number have testified thereto on our behalf. You ought not to doubt, finally, that the reverend Jesuit fathers have disobeyed his Holiness and the Sacred Congregation ; that they have not been willing to return goods which do not belong to them ; that they have written to Madras ; that they have gone from house to house hoping to render us hateful to all the Christians ; that they have made us over to the secular arm ; that they have directed us to be treated with all possible severity ; that they have presented a petition to Monsieur de Flacourt, judge of Pondicherry, to stop the execution of the decrees; that they inflict on us daily some fresh mortification;