reasons that the royal patronage, both universal and special, be put into due practice, without allowing errors in the appropriation of the appointments and approvals in the entrance of collegiate seminarists. To the ordinary was alone left, by virtue of his trust from his Majesty, the government and administration of the collegiates, for the greater security in the investigation of their qualifications and morals. That was done, and the royal patronage was left in power. [See also the fuller account given by San Antonio, in VOL. XXVIII, pp. 117-123; Concepción's Historia, x, pp. 170-184; and Martinez de Zúñiga's Historia, pp. 518, 519. Concepción says that the king resolved, January 27, 1714, upon the erection of three chairs, for laws, canons, and institute, respectively, to be appointed by competitive examination. These were for the purpose of educating the natives for the cathedral dignities. The despatch concerning this matter was received in Manila, in August, 1717. With the decree of July 26, 1730, the seminary virtually came to an end.] COLLEGE OF SAN JUAN DE LETRAN Of the removal of the college of San Juan de Letran of Manila On May 8 of this same year, 669, the college of San Juan de Letran was moved to the site on which it is even yet located. It had its first beginning in the house of a pious Spaniard, called Juan Geronimo Guerrero, who had dedicated himself, with Christian piety, to gathering orphan boys in his house, where he raised, clothed, and sustained them, and taught them to read and to write, and much more, to live in the fear of God. [100] His piety was aided by many citizens, who offered him abundant alms. Especially was the governor, Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, earnest in aiding him and helping him by giving him, in the name of the king our sovereign, some portion of the cost for so holy a work. Among other things, he gave him an encomienda, [101] in order to sustain the orphans with its products; and a bit of homestead or arable land, one hundred brazas long and fifty wide in the alcaycería or Parián of the Sangleys, in order that they might erect shops therein without paying any land tax to the city. Both concessions were afterwards confirmed by the king our sovereign and his royal Council. [102]