eded to execute it, notwithstanding that the provisor proceeded
to threaten censures, and to impose an interdict [40] and suspension
from religious functions [_cessatio de divinis_]. The governor
ordered a gallows to be erected in front of the very church of
St. Augustine, and the criminal was hanged thereon--to the contempt
of the ecclesiastical immunity, for the [proper] place assigned
for such punishments was very distant from there. The governor,
seeing that the sentence was already executed, and that he had now
obtained the chief object of his desire, wrote to the archbishop,
requesting him to have the censures removed and the interdict raised,
and the churches opened on the day of the nativity of our Lady. The
archbishop, recognizing the duplicity of the governor, refused to
answer that letter without first consulting the orders; and, after
consulting with some of them, decided that he would not raise the
interdict, since there was less inconvenience in having it imposed
[even] on so festive a day, than there would be in his yielding on
an occasion so inimical to the ecclesiastical immunity. However, the
requests of the Recollect fathers of our father St. Augustine, who
had charge of the advocacy of the nativity, had so much influence that
the archbishop ordered the interdict to be removed, and it was done.

The commander of artillery was condemned to some pecuniary fines,
from which he appealed to the judge of appeals, who was the bishop
of Camarines. The ecclesiastical judge refusing to admit the appeal,
he threatened the royal aid of fuerza; and this question having been
examined in the royal Audiencia (which at that time consisted of but
the governor and only one auditor, Don Marcos Zapata), it was declared
in his favor, and the appeal went to the bishop of Camarines. The
latter--namely, Don Francisco Zamudio, of the order of our father
St. Augustine, and a son of the province of Mejico--declared the
commander of artillery to be free from the sentence given by the
ecclesiastical judge. The trial of the commander of artillery had its
second hearing. On that account there did not fail to result certain
charges against the governor, such as his having ordered the secular
priests to be detained in the guard-house; his declaration that he
could not be excommunicated by anyone except the pope; and that if an
order were given to him to arrest the pontiff, he would arrest him,
and even drag him along by one foot (whic