Calderon, presbyter; and
Alferez Francisco del Castillo, chief constable of the archbishop. The
archbishop ordered that the father minister of Dilao be arrested,
"and placed as a prisoner in one of the convents--that of St. Dominic,
or St. Augustine, or the Society of Jesus, or St. Nicolas of the
Recollects of this city--the one which the said father should
select. That convent the archbishop assigns to him as a prison and
place of confinement; and he is ordered not to break it under penalty
of greater excommunication, _latae senteniae ipso facto incurrenda_, and
suspension from active and passive vote for three years. And in order
that the said imprisonment might be effective, and not be hindered
by the religious of the said order, the royal aid shall be petitioned
through this royal Audiencia, to whom it rightly belongs to give that
aid, in order that they may fulfil the decrees of the holy council of
Trent, and a royal decree given for this purpose, under date of San
Lorenzo, November fourteen, six hundred and three, directed to this
royal Audiencia, and another royal decree of the same date directed
to the archbishop of these islands, in which they are ordered to make
effectual the said visit, as such is advisable for the relief of the
consciences of his Majesty and of the said archbishop...."

The Audiencia having been asked for aid on June 27, declared on July
4, that "there was no occasion at the present time for imparting to
the archbishop of these islands the royal aid asked in his name...."

While the above was happening, one Sunday, June 26, papers were
seen to be posted on the doors of the cathedral and convents of
Manila. They were signed by father Fray Pedro de Muriel, by order
of the judge conservator appointed to prevent the said visit. He
was father Fray Tomas Villar, rector of the college of St. Dominic,
by virtue of two briefs of Pius V: the first given March 24, 1567;
and the second September 23, 1571 _Universis et singulis venerabilibus
fratribus_. He had accepted his charge one day before the said posters
were put up. In those posters, Don Juan Cevicos was declared to have
incurred the excommunication of the canon _si quis suadente diabolo_,
for having taken Father Valdemoro from the procession the twenty-fourth
of the same month.

The matter being communicated to the archbishop, "he summoned the
said conservator to immediately refrain from proceeding in the said
causes, under penalty of incurri