[101] Apparently a play on words, mingled with a sarcastic comment
on Fray Gaspar. One may hazard the conjecture that the latter (who
was a noted grammarian) is here mentioned in contempt as knowing more
of grammar than of current affairs, and being able only to understand
events actually completed and past, without the foresight to perceive
how these affect the future.

[102] i.e., no more than two--referring to the "dual" number in
Greek declension.

[103] A copy of this act may be found in Ventura del Arco MSS.,
iii, pp. 513-515; it is dated "at our house on the river of Manila,
October 22, 1684."

[104] An allusion to the well-known quotation, Parturiunt montes,
nascetur ridiculus mus (line 139 of the Ars poetica of Horatius).

[105] The decree of the Audiencia which ordered the restoration of
the archbishop to his see was dated October 24, 1684. He returned to
Manila on November 16.

[106] This man was delegated by the city of Manila, being one of its
regidors, according to Diaz (Conquistas, pp. 776, 777).

[107] Diaz states (Conquistas, p. 777) that Curuzelaegui declared on
this occasion that if the home government should be offended at his
restoring the archbishop, he would consider punishment by them for
this cause "a great honor, even if it be capital." Diaz praises him as
"one of the best governors that these islands have had; affable, pious,
magnanimous, wholly disinterested, and very liberal. He also said that
he had come to Filipinas to be poor, where other governors had come
to be rich. This he said very truly, for in Espana and Indias he had
possessed much wealth--gained in the many voyages that he had made as
commander of the fleet and galleons to Peru and Nueva Espana--which
his ostentation and liberality had consumed."

[108] Diaz gives (ut supra, pp. 778, 779) the list of these: the
auditors and Governor Vargas; the preceding alcalde-mayor of Manila
(either Morales, Camacho or Pimentel), and that of Camarines (Juan de
Verastein); Juan Sanchez, secretary of the Audiencia; Juan Gallardo,
castellan of Cavite; Sargento-mayor Alonso de Aponte y Andrade,
and Captains Jose de Somonte, Francisco de Urrutia, Diego del Pozo
y Gatica, and Miguel Machuca; Admiral Pedro de la Pena; and Captain
Baltasar de Lerma, notary-public. The military officers were readily
absolved, as not having been free to act, when ordered to proceed
against the ecclesiastics.

[109] Diaz says (p. 779) that the archbishop at thi