ave all the defects
therein corrected through the issuance of new letters and bulls,
in order that the said Society may thereby be deprived and despoiled
of its said just privileges and legal titles. In virtue of these it
is toiling to the great benefit and advantage, both spiritual and
temporal, of the vassals of your Majesty who are resident in those
regions and provinces, and who again and again have sought to have
the Society upheld in its said right, the same having been duly
acknowledged and certified, of which there cannot be the slightest
doubt. In order to make plain the baselessness of the arguments that
are raised against the said bulls, it suffices to say that they have
been presented in legal, authentic, and unchallengeable shape, whereof
the evidence is wholly undeniable; and have been recognized as such
by the Council, by which they have been accepted with all needed
circumstances and requirements--so that, had any further scrutiny
been needed therein, the same would not have been neglected, nor,
[in such case], would the audiencias of the Indias have allowed them
to be cited. Moreover in the suit now pending in the Council, between
the college of the Society and that of Santo Tomas in sequence of
the one conducted before the royal Audiencia resident in that city
[of Manila], the fiscal of Santa Fe [in Mexico?] required that those
bulls should be recognized and fulfilled; and although opposition
thereto was offered on the part of the college of Sante Tomas,
the acts of the trial and the review show that a writ of execution
was issued empowering the Society to make full and complete use of
the same by conferring degrees, as it had been doing, the college
of Santo Tomas being enjoined therefrom. In consideration of this
it is not right to grant the father procurator a hearing. Besides,
in that suit many other arguments and reasons were brought forward
in favor of the Society. Wherefore, if this had not already been
decided, finished, and closed, as is the case, a petition would
be presented to have all the acts relative to the same brought
together, or that a report should be drawn up of the proceedings
in the trial. With this concurs the fact, as said, that they were
passed by the Council, of which a cedula to that effect has been
presented. Moreover in the said suit before the Audiencia of Manila,
the cedula of November 25 of [the year 16] 45 having been offered in
opposition thereto, full recognition was