Furthermore he ordered that should
any one have gone to the said Japan or countries near by, or in the
future should go thither, no matter what his reasons, on being warned
he should immediately depart thence and return to the said Philippine
Islands or other countries of the Western Indias, under the same
penalties as above; and, moreover, under the same penalties as well
as others at the option of any ecclesiastical judge whomsoever he
might be constrained and compelled thereto.
While later Pope Paul V, also our predecessor of happy memory, having
learned by experience that the prohibition to go to the Indias and
the city of Goa otherwise than by way of Portugal was neither obeyed,
nor even advantageous for the spread of the Catholic faith: in order
therefore that, as he desired, he might make due provision whereby so
important a work of God might be carried on without hindrance, made
the following grant to all and singular the masters, ministers and
priors--general of the mendicant orders--or the heads of orders for
the time being, by whatever title they might be known--that whenever
necessity should require them to send to Japan and other near-by,
adjacent, and neighboring islands, provinces arid countries, to the
superiors of their orders resident therein, any religious of their
order of respectable character and learning, whomsoever they might deem
fit and serviceable for the discharge of the said duties and offices,
to this end they might freely and lawfully send them otherwise than
by way of Portugal--in all remaining matters, however, being bound in
all respects to observe the said letters of his predecessor Clement,
and the fuller instructions contained in those issued by the said
Gregory and Clement and his predecessor Paul V the tenor whereof in
these our presents we wish to be considered as expressed therein.
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