e advised, for
the vacancy pertained to him in case that one were proclaimed. He
absolved the governor, the auditor Zapata, and the others included in
the excommunications of the archbishop, on the twentieth of May. It
is said that when the cabildo were obliged to take charge of the
government by the governor and auditor, they entered their protests;
but the archbishop was greatly grieved over it when he heard of it,
which with the many other sorrows [that he endured] made it remarkable
that his life did not come to an end, since he was so aged and had
borne so many hardships.

CHAPTER XVIII

_Return of Archbishop Don Fray Hernando Guerrero from his exile in
Mariveles; and the end of the relation commenced._

Stripped of all consolation, the archbishop, Don Hernando Guerrero,
remained twenty-six days in the island of Mariveles, where he endured
perforce privations, both because of his advanced age, and because
of the dreariness of the island--which is very great, as it is nearly
deserted, and contains only some few Indian huts. Those Indians have
charge of scouting those seas, and of advising Manila of what they
discover, by the greater or less number of fires which they light--in
the manner that the Persians were wont to do, who gave advice by means
of those fires, which they called _angaros_, as is mentioned by Bardayo
in the first chapter of his _Argenis_. The climate [of Mariveles]
is very unhealthful, and the location is not a pleasant one as the
island is shut in on all sides by thick forests, and because of the
continual beating of the sea. There lived the venerable shepherd,
meditating on the ingratitude of his sheep, venting his feeling in
gentle sighs, and relieving his afflicted breast with tears. Thus
was he found by four prebendaries of the Manila cabildo who went to
console him, and to propose to him certain matters in behalf of the
governor, which we shall detail later.

The church at Manila remained during that time as a flock without a
shepherd. All was confusion and disorder. The new provisor, the bishop
of Camarines, had readily raised the interdicts and the suspension of
religious functions. He ordered the bells to be chimed for the feast
on Saturday, the eve of the festival of the Holy Ghost. The prelates
of the orders, with the exception of him of the Society, thought that
the provisor who had been intruded could not legitimately raise the
interdict and the other censures. For no mention