[85] The original is asi bonetes como capillas. Bonetes refers to the secular priest who wears a bonnet, in contradistinction to the regular, who wears a hood or cowl, capilla. See Appleton's New Velázquez Dictionary. [86] Concepción says (vi, pp. 190, 191) that a house was bought for the new college next to the college of San José; and January 20, 1641, the first becas were given. Some of the Jesuits did not approve the new college, and sighted the fatal results from afar, "from taking so great a sum from the royal treasury, without sufficient authorization." "But the fathers in power trampled everything under foot, for they were quite confident in its introduction, and thought that if those powers had no effect, no harm would come from its results, while the present gain was very great and constant." [87] "The Society alleged that the decree was obtained on false representation and contained falsehoods in its narration; that its execution should be suspended, until truer reports were given to the sovereign; that, even laying aside this vice, the Society, against whom the execution was to be made, was not a party; that the royal decree did not order it, nor did law declare it, because neither the Society nor the college of San Joseph was interested in such sum, which at best ought to be collected from the collegiates, for whose use it had been spent, or from the governor, at whose order the money had been paid out; and that the embargo was an excess on laymen, since it was in ecclesiastical incomes." On this account the royal officials decreed in favor of the Society. See Concepción's Historia, vi, pp. 191, 192. [88] "The Society continued its demands at court, and gained their plea, and the governor was ordered, in case that sum had been collected, to restore it to the Society. If that sum had not been paid, no further effort was to be made to collect it. Seemingly this order had no effect, for the king gave them as recompense an encomienda, in which the Society were to make good their losses." Concepción's Historia, vi, p. 193. [89] See post, pp. 187-192. [90] We present these regulations for the most part only in abstract. [91] This decree is given by Fray Bernardino Nozaleda de Villa, the last Spanish archbishop of Manila, in his Colegio de S. José, (appendix, document no. 5, pp. x, xi), a pamphlet presenting the Church side in the recent controversy of San José College, argued before the Philippine Commission; and also by Pastells, in his edition of Colin, ii, pp. 493, 494. See also various documents treating of this college presented by Pastells, ut supra, iii, pp. 763-781. [92] See LeRoy's Philippine Life in Town and Country (New York and London, 1905), pp. 120-122. See also various estimates on the capacities of the Filipinos in LeRoy's article "Friars in the Philippines," in Political Science Quarterly, xviii, pp. 675-678.