with the mission of 1635; "he returned
at once to Espana, summoned by his Majesty to take charge of the
chair of mathematics at the court, with a stipend of one thousand
ducados a year."

[74] Antonio Gomez de Espejo was born in Manila, in 1604; and made
his profession in the Dominican order, at the age of twenty-one. He
ministered in various Indian villages in Luzon; and in 1678 died,
at Lallo-c.

[75] Pedro Fernandez de Ledo, a native of Mexico, made his profession
as a Dominican friar in 1625, at the age of seventeen. He was one
of the faculty at Santo Tomas until 1651, when he was chosen prior,
and afterward provincial. Ledo died at Manila, October 15, 1662;
soon afterward, his appointment to a bishopric was received there.

[76] Applied to a crime that may be tried either in ecclesiastical
or secular courts.

[77] Dispensation for receiving orders outside the time specified by
the church.

[78] Perhaps some allusion to a well-known proverb or saying.

[79] There is no direct clue to the authorship of this document;
but it was evidently written by a lawyer, and one who sided with
the Jesuits and the governor. It is possible that this was Fabian de
Santillan, appointed by that order as judge-conservator; it would be
very natural for him, from prudential motives, to mention himself in
the third person in the letter, knowing that it would almost certainly
be read by others than his correspondent.

[80] There is here a play on words, the text reading, _que no andan
Por El camino Rl_ y derecho. _Derecho_ has a now obsolete meaning,
"road," or "path."

[81] That is, to inspect their morals and mode of life.

[82] Fray Francisco Zamudio, an Augustinian by profession, was a native
of Mechoacan, Mexico. Little information about him is available; but
Perez says that Zamudio was in Manila in 1594, and died in 1636--an
event which, according to Delgado (_Hist. de Filipinas_, p. 178),
occurred in 1639. Diaz's mention of it, however (pp. 197-198, _ante_),
would imply that the earlier date was the correct one. Perez does
not mention the fact that Zamudio became a bishop.

[83] Spanish, _tablilla_: a list of persons excommunicated, exhibited
in churches.

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