_ 522 _ Gonçalves will show you about the great virtues that are in it. I must send his letter to Our Lord the King as an item of great value. See what it means to take bribes and gifts. 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 I have him with me and do many things that Our Lord, the King, orders. As for the matter you address to me in 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) Miguel Vaz Coutinho, Vicar General of India, to whom the Bishop ascribes “prudence, discretion and learning” (opus cit [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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