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with what happened afterward, as we shall see in the following chapter.

CHAPTER XVI

_Relation of the disputes and strife between the archbishop and the
governor, Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera._

The strife, being greatly inflamed by the events above mentioned,
became entangled with one of the most memorable disputes that have
occurred in the islands--a necessary occasion for the sharpest
encounter between the two jurisdictions, and one from which Don Fray
Hernando Guerrero could not excuse himself, as it concerned the most
sacred part of the ecclesiastical immunity. That was a matter in which
the archbishop could not neglect to sally out with all his might, in
order to comply with the obligation of a true prelate. The case was
as follows: There was an artilleryman in Manila, named Francisco de
Nava, who had a female slave with whom he had illicit communication,
as came to the ears of the archbishop. The archbishop ordered him to
remove from himself this occasion [for sin] by selling the slave-girl
to another person; and had the latter placed, for that purpose, in the
house of a lady who was related to Dona Maria de Francia, who became
fond of her and arranged to buy her from the artilleryman. The latter
was so beside himself over the loss of the said slave that he refused
to sell her at any price, saying that he wished, on the contrary,
to marry her. But Dona Maria de Francia so arranged matters that
the slave was sold, and came into her possession with very slight
effort. The artilleryman, grieved and regretful for what had happened,
almost became mad, and, it having been given out that he was mad,
certain violence was shown him; and on one occasion he had received
a sound beating at the house of Dona Maria de Francia, because he had
gone there to request that they should give him the slave, as he had
resolved to make her his wife.

Aggrieved and rendered desperate in this way, he saw the girl pass one
day in a carriage with Dona Maria de Francia. Going to her he asked her
whether she knew him, who was her master. The slave answered him with
some independence, whereupon he, blind with anger, drew his dagger in
the middle of the street and killed her by stabbing her, before anyone
could prevent it. All the people, both those in the carriage and those
in the street, ran tumultuously [after him]; but the artilleryman
escaped them all, and took refuge in the church of our convent in
Manila. The gove