ilar tenor,
it was trickily drawn up, and the petition for a university made to
read as for one like Lima and Mexico, whereof the reasons advanced
in the said suit were set forth in full form, whence it follows that
it is not entitled to any further consideration; especially so, since
the concession made by his Holiness was according to the tenor of the
clear and truthful petition that had been presented to him, without
taking into consideration the ulterior meaning that through deceit
and malice had been introduced into the report and the subsequent
decree thereon. Nor should so important a defect be glozed over with
the assertion that the said paper bore the signatures of the president
and the members of your Council (whereof there is no evidence) while
the very contrary is evident in the acts. [Let it be noted] that
considerable time has passed, while, moreover, the proceedings have
taken for granted the certainty that those acts should have in similar
matters--besides the facts that, in the endeavor to secure a bull, the
accompanying statement was vague in that no mention was made therein
of the authority possessed by the Society of conferring degrees by
perpetual and lawful right; and that in the Council acknowledgment was
made (with full cognizance of the case and of whatever was proposed in
the said memorial and papers), that they were in favor of the college
of San Ignacio and its degrees and students, and not of those of Santo
Tomas. Moreover, the bulls and apostolic privileges that have been
enjoyed by the Society are in legal and recognized form, and have
been admitted and certified to in all the audiencias and tribunals
of the Indias, as is notorious; they were passed by the Council, and
were presented in the suit, and acknowledged as being of value; while
what was advanced by the said father procurator whereon were issued
the decisions and writs of the Audiencia of Manila and the Council,
was held as gratuitously asserted and without foundation. As early as
the year 26, the said bulls were presented to the president, governor,
and captain-general, at that time Don Juan Nino de Tabora--from which
the subreption latent in the bull which they obtained is inferrible,
for in the form wherein it was granted, they would not have secured
it if his Holiness had had the evidence of the right and [fact of]
possession on the part of the said Society. Nevertheless, the said
father procurator-general seeks and claims to h