ishop called meetings of learned men, and, having made a
protest, appointed in the first place Doctor Hernando Paez Guerrero;
in the second, Master Don Juan de Velez, who died bishop-elect of
Cebu; and in the third, Licentiate Manuel Reaelo [_sic; sc._ Rafaelo]
Macedo. The same thing happened afterward through the death of Bishop
Don Fray Diego de Aduarte, of the Order of Preachers, a man of singular
virtue, the bishop of Nueva Segovia. In his government, Canon Alonso
de Vargas entered to govern, with the same form of choice as the
first. That form of appointing governors for the vacancies of the
bishops was usurped many years in these islands--although there has
been sufficient opposition from the bishops at such an innovation
and corruption--until the provision suitable to so essential a
matter was made in the royal and supreme Council of the Indias,
and in our own times a decree was received from the queen mother,
that the archbishops alone should appoint rulers for the bishoprics,
but the cabildo of Manila [should do this] when the see is vacant.

During all the time while Archbishop Don Fray Hernando Guerrero
governed the church of Manila, he was exercising echoes of the
etymology of his name in the contentions that he had with Governor
Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; [48] and had there not been a
prelate in the church of Manila so zealous and vigilant in matters
of ecclesiastical immunity, it would have been involved in other
and greater difficulties. The archbishop commenced the visitation of
his diocese as soon as he became free from the late storms; and he
continued it through all the benefices of his clergy, until he reached
the island of Mindoro. There he found himself in another danger, no
less than those which he had experienced on land; for he was attacked
by six hostile galliots of the Mindanao enemy, which bore down upon the
boat in which he was, near Naohan. Had not that boat been staunch and
swift, the enemy would have captured and killed him--as is the usual
custom of those Mahometan pirates, the enemy of our holy faith. It
defended itself with the men aboard it, until it arrived at the land
of Bacoo, where they had scarcely time to land and get into a place
of safety; when, as the boat had remained in the sand, the pirates
seized it, and captured many of the followers of the archbishop. They
pillaged all the cargo aboard the boat, even the ornaments and the
pontifical robe, all which was of much v