ge upon this lamentable tragedy, in the narration of which
I have omitted many circumstances which aggravate the execution [of
his banishment]. For it is my intention not to exaggerate, but only
to relate succinctly what happened; and, although eye-witnesses of
everything are not lacking today, to guide myself by the most truthful
relations, and chiefly by those which are found in a book containing
sketches of the archbishops, which is kept in the cathedral church
of Manila. [43]

The purpose of the governor and his followers having been obtained,
as we have seen, they persuaded the ecclesiastical cabildo to take
charge of the government, interpreting the archbishop's exile as
a vacant see, thus opening the door to other disturbances, no less
serious, which originated from this intrusion--in the very sight of
the archbishop who was [still] within his diocese, and who had left a
provisor in Manila, Doctor Don Francisco Fernandez de Ledo. For his
forcible banishment and the deprivation of his secular revenues did
not extend to his spiritual jurisdiction, which originated from the
Roman pontiff. In case that the church had suffered a vacancy by the
death of the archbishop, then the bishop of Cebu, Don Pedro de Arce,
was to enter its government; for it belonged to him by virtue of the
bull and royal decree mentioned in another place. The archbishop
had already appointed the father master, Fray Francisco de Paula,
of the Order of Preachers, to govern the archbishopric in the first
place, and two others in the second, and hence they could not allege
the condition of affairs that the law points out in the chapter _Si
Episcopus: de supplenda negligencia Praelatorum_, in Case sixth. That
happened afterward in Manila, in the exile of Archbishop Don Fray
Felipe Pardo, [44] of the Order of Preachers, who had appointed to
his place of governor during his absence Don Fray Gines de Barrientos,
bishop of Troya; the cabildo refused to admit him, but [declared] that
it was a case of a vacant see, and took charge of the government--which
cost the dean, Master Don Miguel Ortiz de Covarrubias, and all the
prebendaries, very dear.

The cabildo took charge of the government at the governor's command,
and appointed Don Fray Francisco Zamudio, bishop-elect of Camarines
(who had come to Manila to negotiate concerning his bishopric),
as provisor-general. He received the appointment under protest
of _ad interim_ until the bishop of Cebu should b