ition of his which speaks of the ecclesiastical estate: "In
order to curb the spirit of the obstinate and arrogant mule, take
away its fodder." That was an impious comparison, and unworthy of
a gentleman who was so good a Christian and so devout, and of whom
some pens so well affected to him write so much, that already they
pass on (as is generally said) to ennoble his actions, gilding his
errors with the excellent gold of vigor and rhetoric. Some of them,
however, refrain almost entirely from discussing this contention,
which gave the Dutch of Batavia much matter for blasphemous talk.

Don Pedro de Monroy had retired outside the walls of the city, as
he had already left the office of provisor. The governor ordered
that he be not allowed to enter the gates of the city. Consequently,
when he deemed it advisable to enter Manila to see the archbishop,
he had to disguise himself in the habit of St. Francis; and went
to enter through the gate of Santo Domingo, with a religious who
accompanied him. The commander recognized him, and, together with
the rest of the soldiers, surrounded him and tried to take him to the
governor, as they had an order for it. They would have accomplished
this, had not some religious of the convent of St. Dominic come up,
who, although maltreated by the soldiers, removed Don Pedro Monroy
from that danger, and placed him in their convent. Matters daily
continued to grow worse, for the governor neglected no occasion,
nor left any rock unturned in order to annoy the archbishop--now
taking as his instrument the judge-conservator (who was continuing to
accumulate acts against the archbishop), now arousing new causes for
controversy. However, he was impelled in all this by the suggestion
of a third party, and of late by Don Andres Arias Xiron, who was the
secular priest most opposed to the archbishop--both in having prevented
the archbishopric from being given to him, as we have already related,
and because he was the close friend and helper of the conservator,
Don Fabian Santillan. Another and still more recent cause was, that
in the visitation that the archbishop was then making in the chapel
of Nuestra Senora de Guia, where the said Don Andres was acting as
cura--in which the natives had deposed various charges against him;
and on account of their verbal process, as it appeared that he had
threatened them, the archbishop had ordered him by an act to leave
his benefice within four and twenty hours, and