The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c28.99

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Some years before, a document full of slanders against all the Jesuits of the South, but especially against those who where at Venkata's court, had been presented to Philip III. The accusations may be reduced to the following four heads: 1. The Jesuits residing at Venkata's court have no interest at all in the conversion of infidels, and only preach according to the will of the Brahmans and other Hindu ascetics. 2. All their efforts are reduced to making money and to accumulating enormous amounts of money in order to increase their income; and to attain this purpose they always do whatever the King likes. 3. Bro. Fontebona is busy painting indecent pictures to please the sovereign; and 4. They forged letters of the King of Spain to Venkata and of Venkata to the King of Spain, and bribed the ministers of the former to obtain the royal seal ¹.