this information arrived,
posted the auditors as excommunicated, saying that they had incurred
this by the bull De cena, forasmuch as they had tried cases which by
right belonged to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction, as the law states
that these are not separated from that jurisdiction. Notwithstanding
the publication of their names, the auditors ignored the censure, as
launched a non judice [i.e. "by one who is not a judge"]; but it was
not on this account that not only they but the entire city yielded to
the pressure of great anxiety. For they feared lest the new governor,
whose coming was daily expected, would be tinctured with the same
opinions as those held by Don Gabriel, the deceased governor--which
were based on the same sort of case as was then occurring. For, they
said, since a new governor (who is the only arbiter for all classes
in Manila) was at the gates of the city [he might] without searching
his own mind, have taken a resolution so unusual that even Don Felipe
Pardo had not ventured to execute it against the corporate body of
an Audiencia. It is not possible that there should be any secret
information. People confirmed it when they learned how Don Tomas de
Endaya had sent a despatch to the ship by a person who stood high in
his regard, in a very swift champan, so that he could in the name
of Don Tomas give his letters and welcome to the governor who was
expected, with a valuable present. It was well known that the said
champan had been wrecked; but it was also learned that the person who
bore that commission had landed, before the wreck of the champan, in
one of the provinces there; but it was not known whether the present
[that he carried] was landed, and for this reason it was uncertain
whether the determinations of the bishop were the results of the
assiduity of Don Tomas de Endaya, who was a supporter of the bishop.

The talk went further; for inasmuch as the first news which reached
these islands that the ship had arrived at the Embocadero was sent
to Don Tomas de Endaya by his brother Don Bernardo--whom, they said,
he had made alcalde of Catbalongan, which is the first passage and
entrance into these islands--[they said that this was done], first,
that he might place in safety the thousands of pesos which he expected
would be brought to him by the patache which he had sent to Nueva
Espana, laden with goods belonging to himself and Don Gabriel de
Curuzealegui, which was coming on its return voyage; a