I was advised of
the great injuries that the governor was causing to the religious. I
neglected to inform his Majesty and that royal Council of this, as
I considered it certain that, as it had been so public, the matter
would have been communicated from there; and that, after having been
weighed by those gentlemen, they would despatch orders to reform it.

Concerning the lawless act and the audacity of the friars in protecting
and aiding the cleric Don Pedro Monroy, and their public censure of the
governor, the Audiencia, and others in their sermons, with scandal, for
which I feel due regret, although the things that occur there publicly,
and the events that happen there, have been very extraordinary,
yet the words of their sermons must be according to the statement of
the holy Council of Trent: _Que sint examinata et casta, eloquia ad
edificationem_ [28]--words used by our father St. Francis, in his
rules for preachers. If they are not so, then the word of God will
not have the effect on its hearers that it had before the disturbance
and scandal--a matter that has always seemed very wrong to me, and
deserving blame and condemnation. That will happen on this occasion,
for which, in due time, I shall send commission for an investigation
and the punishment of the guilty; and [an account of] what shall be
done shall be sent, so that I may present it to that royal Council,
and it may be seen whether satisfaction has been made; for where that
has not been done, I shall endeavor to secure it, as I strive to do
in all things that arise. This is my response to the first document
sent by your Grace. Given in this convent of St. Francis, in Madrid,
June twenty-eight, one thousand six hundred and thirty-five.

_Fray Francisco de Ocana_,
commissary-general of the Indias.

OPINION OF COUNCIL AND ROYAL DECREE REGARDING THE REQUEST OF THE
JESUITS OF MANILA FOR ALMS FOR THEIR RESIDENCE

Sire:

By a decree of June first of the former year six hundred and
twenty-five, your Majesty granted a concession to the residence of
the Society of Jesus of the city of Manila, in the Philipinas Islands,
of one thousand ducados in each of ten years, in unassigned Indians,
or those who should first become such in the said islands, under the
same terms with which your Majesty granted concession to the convent
of the Order of St. Augustine in the islands for their buildings. The
procurator-general of the said residence has now