e married in Portugal, and that one wife was a widow. Such a
one as this did the archbishop ordain in Pampanga, _extra tempora_
[77] in the three days of a feast, proceeding from the two degrees
that he lacked, namely, those of subdeacon and priest. According to
the account that I have heard given by learned men, there were more
than twelve irregularities, all of which the archbishop passed by,
without its being proved that there should be any dispensation, or
without considering that there can be no dispensation here in this
case--a matter that was considered by many men, both the learned and
the ignorant.

The governor thought that there was a great waste of the royal revenue,
which was not carefully spent, in the royal Spanish hospital of
this city of Manila, and that the sick were not well cared for. In
order to remedy both these evils, the governor conceived the idea
of appointing a chaplain in the said hospital, and of ordering the
fathers of St. Francis, who had it in charge, to leave it. Although
the Franciscans objected, they finally left the hospital; for there
was no royal decree ordering that the hospital should be given into
the care of those religious--since, although the governor asked for
such a decree, it was never shown to him. Many of the religious of
the same order, zealous for its welfare, wrote to the governor that
it was advisable for their own order that the friars be withdrawn
from the hospital. What machinations did they not begin to set
in motion because of this deed! What councils did they not hold
with the archbishop! What excommunications did they not heap on
the governor! The newly-appointed chaplain went to the archbishop
to get leave to administer the sacraments in the said hospital,
but the archbishop steadily refused to give it; nor without that
would he consider examining the chaplain, as the latter wished. The
archbishop said that, if there had to be a chaplain, he must be
appointed through an open competition--although there is a decree
of his Majesty against this, ruling that the choice of chaplains
pertains to the governor alone, and that the person chosen shall go
afterward to the ordinary, so that the latter may give him a license to
administer the sacraments. There was more in this than the key of the
most holy sacrament at that hospital. The archbishop interposed, and
had the said chaplain ordered, under penalty of major excommunication,
not to administer the sacraments or sa