_ 215 _ See what is means to take bribe stand gift. I promise you that I shall try to dissuade the Bishop so that he desists and sends Miguel Caz as the Vicar General(A) and may have him with me and do many things that our Lord, the King, orders. As for the matter you address to me your letter, I shall write to you more at length about it. I send you God’s and my own blessing from Diu. 25th December 1546. Dom Joao de Castro (A) Migual Vaz Coutinho Vicar General of India, to whom Bishop ascribes “prudence, discretion and learning” (opus cit I 85), had just returned from Portugal. He lasted only a short time in India, however. By January 1547 he was already dead.
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