and
many disinterested persons, so that they may not confuse me with
so many different opinions. To them I do not declare my intention
or determination, as is the general custom, until all have spoken;
and then I conform to the opinion of those which I deem best.

May your Lordship understand this truth, and that I fear God more
than the king and his vassals. May His Divine Majesty preserve your
Lordship for many happy years. The palace; October nine, six hundred
and thirty-five.

_Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera_"

The archbishop and the orders seeing that the members of the Society
were not disturbed (which seems to have been their intention, to judge
by the resolution of the assembly), the archbishop sent a notary, a
few days afterward, to notify the superiors of the Society of an act,
which I shall place here together with the reply of the father rector,
Luis de Pedraza.

"We, Don Fray Hernando Guerrero, by the grace of God and the holy
apostolic see archbishop of these Philipinas Islands, member of his
Majesty's Council, etc. Inasmuch as we ordered for just reasons that
moved us thereto, in harmony with the rules of the holy Council of
Trent (in chapter four, _De reformatione,_ session twenty-four),
that the religious fathers of the Society of Jesus be notified--the
father-provincial, Joan de Bueras, the rector, Luis de Pedraza, and
the other superiors of the said order who live in this city--not to
preach outside of their convents in any part of all this archbishopric,
or in camps, or guardhouses, by any manner of talk or preaching,
or in any other manner: that order they shall observe to the letter,
under penalty of major excommunication, _late sentencie, ipso facto
incurenda una protina canonica monitione premisa_, [62] and a fine
of four thousand Castilian ducados for the Holy Crusade, to which
we hold them immediately condemned if they do the contrary. Given in
our archiepiscopal palace, in the city of Manila, October twenty-six,
one thousand six hundred and thirty-five.

_Fray Hernando_, archbishop.

By order of his Lordship: _Diego Bernal_

"At the residence of the Society of Jesus in Manila, on the
twenty-ninth day of the month of November [_sc_., October], one
thousand six hundred and thirty-five, I read and announced the act
contained in the other part [of this document], exactly as is therein
contained, to the father rector, Luis de Pedraza, in the presence
of the witness Diego de Rueda