Dominicans, wrote
a long reply to Sanchez's account of the controversy between the
Audiencia and Archbishop Pardo; therein he cites the latter's reply,
here alluded to, which makes clear this last sentence. Pardo asks the
Audiencia to cease giving his clerics the aid of the royal court,
since otherwise he cannot properly control them, or maintain the
episcopal authority in due force.

[54] The dean then was Miguel Ortiz de Covarrubias; the archdeacon,
Licentiate Francisco Deza.

[55] Diaz states (pp. 754, 755) that the cabildo were angry with
the archbishop because he had separated from the curacy of Santiago
(then held by Gregorio Diaz de Isla) the Spaniards who lived in
Tondo, Binondo, Santa Cruz, and other places so far away that the
cura could not properly fulfil his duties toward them, especially to
the dying. The archbishop acted thus, however, with the approval of
the governor and other officials.

[56] Raimundo Berart was a Catalan, and came from the Dominican
convent at Barcelona. He was teaching law in the university of Lerida
when he resolved to enter the Philippine mission; he arrived in 1679,
when twenty-eight years old. He was vice-rector (1684-86) and rector
(1686-89) of Santo Tomas; in 1689, it appears that he went to Spain,
and in 1696 was in Mexico. Later, he was probably procurator of
the Philippine province in Europe; and he died in Atocha, Spain,
on April 13, 1713. See sketch of his career in Resena biografica,
ii, pp. 195-206, where are copied several documents relating to him.

[57] Several of Pardo's decrees were dated "from our palace of San
Gabriel" (the name of the hospital).

[58] A petition to this effect from the cabildo to the archbishop,
dated April 10, 1681, is reproduced in Resena biografica, ii,
pp. 196-198, followed by Pardo's "pastoral letter" in reply. The
editor claims that Juan Gonzalez (afterward provisor of the see)
signed the petition under compulsion.

[59] Diaz states (p. 755) that the archbishop replied that he would
send Verart to Spain as his attorney, which would be sufficient to
remove him from Manila; he informed the Audiencia that Verart had not
only rendered him great service, but had reformed many abuses in the
ecclesiastical courts. The Dominican provincial said that the Audiencia
must show cause for Verart's removal, or he could do nothing; for
Verart had been assigned to the post of associate to the archbishop.

[60] These men came in 1681. The last name