_Fray Hernando_, archbishop. _Fray Pedro_, bishop of Santisimo Nombre de Jesus. _Fray Domingo Gonsalez_ Fray Geronimo del Spiritu Santo Fray Juan de Montemayor Fray Gaspar de Santa Maria [60] Fray Francisco de Herrera Fray Alonso de San Joan Fray Joseph de Santa Maria Fray Antonio Gonsalez Fray Vicente Argente Fray Alonso de Carvajal Fray Sebastian de Oquendo Fray Diego de Ochoa Fray Pedro de Santo Thomas Fray Miguel de San Juan [61] By order of his Excellency, the archbishop, my lord, _Bachelor Joan Fulgencio_, notary." But it is to be noted that although the above act is signed by so many, some of them afterward stated that they had been misled. For the Order of St. Augustine afterward renewed through its definitors its former friendship with the Society, saying that those who had signed had no authority to do so; and the bishop of Zebu, Don Fray Pedro de Arce, retracted it as a mistake, as your Grace will see by the enclosed document that he drew up. "In consideration of a council called by Archbishop Don Fray Hernando Guerrero, on the ninth of this month of October--at which I was present, together with certain religious of the orders of St. Dominic, St. Francis, and the caked and discalced religious of St. Augustine--and of a paper that was drawn up against the Society of Jesus, in which the archbishop deprived them of the sermons [assigned to them] in the lists of the cathedral and of other secular churches subject to the said archbishop, as well as the other things that the said document contains because the fathers of the said Society of Jesus did not attend the said council: I signed the said paper at the meeting, on account of the relation that was made then in the absence of the said fathers of the Society. But afterward, having been informed of the truth, and that the fathers had very just reasons for not attending such meeting, I declare for the discharge of my conscience, that my opinion given then is null and void, and that the action taken in the said document is not just. On the contrary, I think that the said fathers of the Society are worthy of praise and reward for their great devotion, holy doctrine, and excellent method of procedure--of which it is not proper to deprive the faithful, by taking from them the fruit that is received from their sermons and admirable instruction everywhere. In order that this my sentiment and opinion may be apparent for all time, I affixed my name to this present document in Manila, October eighteen, one thousand six hundred and thirty-five. Fray Pedro, bishop of Santissimo de Jesus. His most reverend Lordship signed in my presence and I witness thereto, and know him. _Juan Soriano_, notary-public."