, and my only desire is that they come out right. I
meddled in the affair because I thought it expedient and desirable
to procure, by honorable means, the restoration of your Lordship's
liberty of the ordinary jurisdiction. That was injured and enslaved,
the moment when it was subject to the hindrance of not being able to
alter anything without a fresh intervention of the orders, and of being
obliged to temporize with them so much as your Lordship indicates;
for the person and dignity of the archbishop of Manila are of great
importance, and his feelings of anger should be of less duration,
so that he should not be compelled to chide the quarrels of others
with his crozier.

"I petition your Lordship to keep this in mind, for I say it through
my love as a son of your Lordship, as a corrective for the present
and a warning for the future; and the greatest happiness exists when
the two heads of the state are in harmony. May God direct it, as He
is able, and preserve your Lordship, as I desire. From my residence,
October 19, 1635.

_Don Juan Cerezo [Salamanca]_"

The fathers of the Society, seeing that the peace measures had been
useless, and that the doors to any suitable settlement were tightly
closed on them on the part of the archbishop and the religious who
were their opponents; and that two days afterward they had notified
the rector of the Society of the first act, they had notified the
minister of Santa Cruz of another (that place being a mission of
the Society), in order that he should not instruct certain Indians,
a right which the preceding prelate had given to the Society. [64]
It was rumored that the archbishop was trying to deprive them of
the confessional. Daily new troubles were feared, and the fathers
of the Society were compelled to appoint a judge-conservator; and
one was in fact appointed on the second of November, 1635. This
was Don Fabian de Santillan y Cavilanes, schoolmaster of this holy
metropolitan church. He was not serving _ad interim_, as the other
relation declares, but held that office in regular appointment,
and had held it for several years. He was the son of a treasurer
of the royal exchequer. Alonso Baesa del Rio was assigned as his
notary, a notary-public and a man of vast experience and skill in
papers. The judge-conservator ordered the archbishop, under penalty
of major excommunication and a fine of four thousand ducados for the
Holy Crusade, to repeal the acts passed against th