ation--although
he was so far from that, and this was so accidental a case that it
could not have been foreseen in the order that was issued so many
days previously. The relation of the fathers of St. Dominic charges
that accident to the governor, unjustly and with prejudice.

During the execution of the sentence on the night of Thursday,
September six, an interdict was imposed and the cessation of divine
services ordered. The sentence was executed, and the artilleryman
was hanged on the same spot where he had killed the slave-girl. The
provisor was so carried away by passion that he tried to make
(and it is even said that he did make) a report that they hanged
the culprit in a sacred place--although the street was public, and
[the hanging occurred] at the same place where the artilleryman had
committed the homicide. Your Grace can see the so great want of logic
[in this matter]; for if that were a sacred place, then the crime had
been committed in it, and the artilleryman could not avail himself
of the church as he was trying to do.

The governor wrote to the archbishop in terms of the greatest courtesy,
requesting him to throw open the churches, and not to deprive this
community of mass and consolation on a day of so great importance as
was the nativity of our Lady, which came on the following Saturday;
for, since the execution was already over, there was no remedy for the
matter. The archbishop called a meeting of the religious of all the
orders, who thought by that means to avenge themselves for the injuries
which they imagined that they had received from the governor--those
of St. Dominic, because he had divided the Parian treasury; those of
St. Francis, because he had regulated the hospital expenses, which
they were incurring to the so great detriment of the royal estate; and
those of St. Augustine, because he had deprived them of some Sangley
shops in Tondo--and for other private feelings of resentment. They
carried the torch into that meeting, making the encounter between
the governor and the archbishop a political matter; consequently,
they expressed the opinion that the censures should not be raised
under any circumstances. A religious of St. Dominic said that they
ought to last for five hundred years, while another added "even to
the end of the world." Very indecorous was their speech regarding
the person of the governor, for they did not stop to consider that
he represents the royal person by reason of his