t the
said pilot, and to order at the city gates that two religious of the
Order of St. Dominic, namely, Fray Francisco Pinelo and Fray Diego
Collado--who were the ones who had planned that escape--should not be
allowed to pass through them. Then that order also began to say that
the governor was incurring a thousand excommunications, not stopping to
consider that he who has charge of this city and these islands is bound
to preserve them and watch over them, and to give the proper military
orders that he considers necessary; and that he could not prevent that
loss, except by not allowing those religious to leave the walls. By
another method, other religious stirred up a goodly number of sailors,
and as many soldiers; and they, having already received money for the
journey to Maluco in the galleons which were about to sail, fled in
a champan by way of Yndia. There was in this affair a cleric named
Don Francisco Montero, who had been expelled from the priesthood,
and who was a restless man. He carried papers and authority from
the archbishop. There was also a French Recollect friar, named Fray
Nicolas de Tolentino, who was angered at his order because they did
not elect him provincial in accordance with his claims. A friar of
St. Dominic went also. It was said that he was going on to Espana
with grievous complaints against the governor, the royal Audiencia,
and the fathers of the Society. But much greater can be the complaints
of the governor of him because he had committed so unreasonable an act,
and one so much to the disservice of his Majesty, in taking away the
men who were to aid his royal service in the royal fleet.

The judge-conservator weighed down the archbishop with censures,
to make him give up the protest or libel. He had declared him
excommunicated and suspended; but the archbishop refused to surrender
the protest, while the judge-conservator did not cease to demand
it. While matters were in this condition, at the petition of the
fathers of the Society the governor took hold of affairs, in order
to settle them. He called a council of four lawyers--the best in
Manila--among whom was his Majesty's fiscal. The father provincial
and the father rector of the Society were at the meeting, and also the
judge-conservator. The lawyers read the opinion which they had studied
over for several days; and all agreed that the judge-conservator
could remove the suspension that he had imposed on the archbishop,
in order to o