h he was proved to have said
by several persons). The governor freed himself from all these charges
by excuses in a manifesto which he published; but as it is not a part
of my duty to examine their adequacy, I shall not do so. I shall refer
the reader to the reply made to him by a learned ecclesiastic of the
university of Mejico; [41] for there is no liberty in Filipinas to
enable any one to complain, or to speak his mind against what the
government manipulates.

The governor ordered the provisor, Don Pedro Monroy, to go to the
island of Hermosa to serve in the post of chief chaplain, endeavoring
by this means to revenge himself--as if he were able to give the former
the collation and the spiritual jurisdiction necessary. The provisor
resisted him, and informed the archbishop thereof. The governor also
wrote a letter to the latter, ordering him to appoint another provisor
in place of Don Pedro Monroy, both because he had been assigned to the
island of Hermosa and such was advisable for his Majesty's service
(the mask under which the passions of those who ought to fulfil
their duties with justice are generally cloaked), and because the
office of provisor could not be exercised by him in contradiction of
a royal decree which ordered that the provisor should not be one who
had not been graduated and who did not have the learning necessary
(although the learning of Don Pedro was sufficient, and the holy
Council [of Trent?] and the sacred canons do not fix conditions for
such an office). The archbishop convened the orders for the solution
of this matter. Having written to Father Luis Pedrosa, rector of the
Society, to attend the meeting, the said father rector excused himself;
and, although summoned the requisite number of times, he refused to
attend. Consequently, the archbishop promulgated an act, in which
he deprived the fathers of the Society of the privilege of preaching
throughout the archbishopric, of the titles of synodal examiners, and
of active and passive right of assembly with the secular priests and
the orders both in public acts and in other functions, in consideration
of the fact that they refused to concur in the defense of the rights
of the ecclesiastical estate. On the following day, Tuesday, October
9, 1635, the archbishop sent a letter to the governor, requesting him
to accept the excuse given by the provisor, so that he might not go to
serve in the post of chaplain at the island of Hermosa; for he had ne