to remain six leguas
from it. Don Andres Arias Xiron did not obey that order, and remained
in Manila, where he had recourse to the royal Audiencia by a plea of
fuerza, which was decided [to be such] by the only auditor, Don Marcos
Zapata, who was not ignorant of the rules of the Council of Trent which
forbid appeals in a trial arising from the visitation. On account of
that decision of fuerza, the archbishop declared the auditor Zapata to
be excommunicated; consequently, that official was also ready to work
against the archbishop. All greatly blame that magistrate, because
Don Sebastian de Corcuera found an aid and support in him. One would
believe that the Holy Spirit talks with the governors and auditors
of Filipinas more than with others, although these words and warnings
are declared in the chapter of Wisdom: _Discite judices finium terrae,
prebete aures vos, qui continetis multitudines, et placetis vobis in
turbis nationum; quoniam data est a Domino potestas vobis, el virtus ab
Altissimo, qui interrogabit opera vestra, et cogitationes scrutabitur,
quoniam cum essetis ministri regni illius, non recte judicastis, nec
custodistis legem justitiae, neque secundum voluntatem Dei ambulastis._
[42] Of such ministers and counselors, the holy king said that they
who were confounded and ashamed should remove themselves far from
him: _Avertantur statim erubescentes, qui dicunt mihi, "Euge, euge!"_
(Psalm lxix). But He must have chosen on this occasion that the passion
of the governor should regard the flattery of that magistrate as to
his favor, in order to excuse his own conduct. It may be that his
error was for lack of his understanding and not of his will; and to
judge of that pertains to the Supreme Tribunal.

At that time the Order of the Society having considered the
disturbances which the judge-conservator had occasioned, full of
repentance at having been the origin of troubles of so disagreeable
publicity, in the attempt to check them for the sake of the future
made the judge-conservator renounce his commission, and be absolved
by the archbishop. This the latter did on January twenty-eighth,
1636. The governor pretended that he had been the mediator of that
agreement. The archbishop nodded acquiescence and pretended to believe
it, in order not to lose that occasion for peace. The governor went to
the archiepiscopal house, and took the archbishop to the church in his
own carriage, and there knelt down on his knees, begg