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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55: 1635-36; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55: 1635-36; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

Within a short time, the old wounds were reopened, and the archbishop
was given new causes for anger in which it was impossible for him to
employ dissimulation, as they were all concerning the administration
of his office. The governor deprived the Order of St. Francis of
the administration and chaplaincy of the royal hospital of Manila,
which they had administered with great care, charity, and zeal; and
appointed a lay administrator and a secular chaplain. The archbishop
felt that greatly, and declined to give the new chaplain permission to
administer the sacraments, on account of legitimate reasons which he
had for this step. The latter had recourse to the Audiencia by plea
of fuerza; and the auditor, Don Marcos Zapata, immediately declared
that it had been committed. The archbishop protested, knowing by what
had happened in the past the prejudice that the said auditor felt,
and because one auditor with only the fiscal could not constitute so
sovereign a tribunal. For the fiscal had not the royal appointment,
but had only been appointed by the governor _ad interim_; for the
plurality of votes which attest a correct decision and authorize the
best opinion, according to the Divine sentence _Salus autem ubi multa
consilia_ (Proverbs, ch. 5), were lacking. This has been experienced on
various occasions, on which only one auditor has been left in Manila,
an arbiter following rather the dictates of his will than that of
his understanding, which has the truth as its object.

At that same time, Don Francisco de Valdes having resigned the post
of archdean, to which he had been presented by Don Juan Cerezo de
Salamanca, the governor appointed Don Andres Arias Xiron to it on
the eighteenth of April, and presented him to the archbishop, so that
the latter might give him the collation. The prudent prelate grieved
sorely over an occasion that could only with great difficulty terminate
satisfactorily, as the said Don Andres was then prohibited from being
promoted to any dignity, because of the visitation in which he had
been proclaimed as a criminal by many heavy charges, which demanded a
rigorous sentence and deprivation of the benefice that he held; and
it was impossible to give him the collation for so lofty a dignity
according to the holy canons and council. The archbishop refused to
commit a like act of injustice, whereupon Don Andres Arias Xiron,
aggrieved, interposed the appeal from fuerza, which the auditor
Zapata did not fail to declare against the archbishop. He did this,
and despatched a royal decree for it, which the archbishop refused to
obey. The governor was very angry at not succeeding with his attempt,
and because the archbishop had not given the canonical collation to
Don Andres Arias Xiron. That strife increasing in violence by means of
the interlocutors, Don Andres and the auditor, the declared enemies
of the archbishop, assemblies and meetings were held in order to
exile the archbishop from the kingdom, because he did not obey the

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55: 1635-36; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

Within a short time, the old wounds were reopened, and the archbishop
was given new causes for anger in which it was impossible for him to
employ dissimulation, as they were all concerning the administration
of his office. The governor deprived the Order of St. Francis of
the administration and chaplaincy of the royal hospital of Manila,
which they had administered with great care, charity, and zeal; and
appointed a lay administrator and a secular chaplain. The archbishop
felt that greatly, and declined to give the new chaplain permission to
administer the sacraments, on account of legitimate reasons which he
had for this step. The latter had recourse to the Audiencia by plea
of fuerza; and the auditor, Don Marcos Zapata, immediately declared
that it had been committed. The archbishop protested, knowing by what
had happened in the past the prejudice that the said auditor felt,
and because one auditor with only the fiscal could not constitute so
sovereign a tribunal. For the fiscal had not the royal appointment,
but had only been appointed by the governor _ad interim_; for the
plurality of votes which attest a correct decision and authorize the
best opinion, according to the Divine sentence _Salus autem ubi multa
consilia_ (Proverbs, ch. 5), were lacking. This has been experienced on
various occasions, on which only one auditor has been left in Manila,
an arbiter following rather the dictates of his will than that of
his understanding, which has the truth as its object.

At that same time, Don Francisco de Valdes having resigned the post
of archdean, to which he had been presented by Don Juan Cerezo de
Salamanca, the governor appointed Don Andres Arias Xiron to it on
the eighteenth of April, and presented him to the archbishop, so that
the latter might give him the collation. The prudent prelate grieved
sorely over an occasion that could only with great difficulty terminate
satisfactorily, as the said Don Andres was then prohibited from being
promoted to any dignity, because of the visitation in which he had
been proclaimed as a criminal by many heavy charges, which demanded a
rigorous sentence and deprivation of the benefice that he held; and
it was impossible to give him the collation for so lofty a dignity
according to the holy canons and council. The archbishop refused to
commit a like act of injustice, whereupon Don Andres Arias Xiron,
aggrieved, interposed the appeal from fuerza, which the auditor
Zapata did not fail to declare against the archbishop. He did this,
and despatched a royal decree for it, which the archbishop refused to
obey. The governor was very angry at not succeeding with his attempt,
and because the archbishop had not given the canonical collation to
Don Andres Arias Xiron. That strife increasing in violence by means of
the interlocutors, Don Andres and the auditor, the declared enemies
of the archbishop, assemblies and meetings were held in order to
exile the archbishop from the kingdom, because he did not obey the

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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