the disposition of the ordinary, after conferring and obtaining the opinion of the prebendaries; as is also their expulsion in the case of incorrigibles, after their rector has informed the ordinary of such: although that nomination and expulsion belonged very properly (and exclusively) to his Majesty, as its foundation was not couched in the terms mentioned by the Council of Trent. To him could only pertain by delivery and by royal disposition their spiritual government, because of the greater care in investigating and restraining their morals. The error of his Excellency was notable in this regard, for although the governor petitioned that he be given possession of such seminary, in the name of his dignity and of his church he declares that the appointment of rector, administrator, and master is in the first place, a right of the superior government by virtue of the laws of the royal patronage, and that he deign to make provision of such posts in persons justified and qualified as most fitting. For being univocal and in accord with the doctrine, founded on laws, the naming and disposition of the collegiates ought also to be private. 3. No measures were taken for the time being to revise the rules, especially the ones mentioned, conforming them to the royal patronage. The practice continued of the ordinary giving the despatches and titles in his provision, until the report of Señor Cuesta to the government asking that the two professors of philosophy and theology might be removed, as he considered such chairs unprofitable. He represented that as a charge on his conscience, asking that fruitless expenses might not be continued for the royal treasury, thus opposing the two professors at that time. The matter was given to his Majesty's fiscal for examination, at that time Señor Vedoya. His reply was that those professorships ought to be suppressed because of the reasons alleged; namely, because they were costly to maintain and of none effect. Thereupon, his Majesty's fiscal reported the special measure of the royal decree of foundation, which provides that no one shall enter the said college without the express license of the vice-patron; that the rules cited were harmful to the universal and private patronage, and that with the opinion of the assessor, an express clause should be added to the above-mentioned fourth rule, by which in order to be admitted into the seminary, the collegiates were to be presented to the vice-patron, and the permission petitioned which is provided by the royal decree. The government in accord with that opinion, and with that of the assessor of the same tenor, informed the archbishop of the measure. The latter replied that from the time of the receipt of the decree, no nomination had been made, or any election of collegiate or boarder of those who had been admitted, as no advice of such circumstance of license for entrance into said college had been given. In answer to his reply the fiscal insisted with strong