12. Another matter even more delicate, and which irritated even more the just annoyance of our monarch Phelipe Fifth, was that in which Señor Tournon took part with even greater ardor, and the results of which fell heavily upon the governor and the archbishop. April twenty-eight, one thousand seven hundred and two, a royal decree was sent to this government, in which was mentioned the receipt of a letter from Don Juan Fausto Cruzat y Gongora, dated June thirteen, seven hundred, in observance of a royal despatch of ninety-seven, which ordered him to report as to whether there was a college seminary in the metropolitan church of Manila, and in case there was none, what its foundation and maintenance would cost. In the above-mentioned letter, Don Fausto reported that such a foundation was unnecessary. However, his Majesty, with a spirit of liberality and zeal, resolved upon the foundation with the number of eight seminarists for the time being. Its foundation and maintenance were to be paid from the ecclesiastical incomes. The decree ordered that, after conferring with the archbishop, the account of its cost should be made and the necessary means should be applied for that purpose from what was yielded by the vacant bishoprics. The amount that could be realized from the tithes was also to be ascertained, and [it was to be stated] whether they met the necessary expenses. For it was his royal intention that they should be preferred rather than that it should be at the cost of his royal treasury and estate. The king relied on the governor's carefulness and accurate direction that he would treat discreetly and economically concerning such expenses, which must be made with all the advisable benefit and saving. Whatever he did, and what result it had, was to be reported promptly. Another royal despatch was sent to the archbishop. In it his Majesty orders and resolves that, inasmuch as the sacred canons and pontifical briefs provide for a seminary for young men in all the cathedral churches, in order that they may become proficient in the sciences, and apply themselves to and assist in divine worship, therefore in fulfilment of them, his Majesty having been informed that there was no such seminary in Manila, he desired one to be founded from his royal treasury in the metropolitan church. For the time being it was to have eight seminarists, and the decree goes on to repeat the orders communicated to the king's governor for that purpose. These despatches gave advice of the preceding reports of the government to the effect that no such seminary was necessary, as well as of that of the archbishop who was of the opinion that the cost should be met from the pensioned curacies, in proportion to their ecclesiastical allowances. His Majesty determined that the foundation and maintenance should be met not from the pensions of the curas, as such was not stipulated by the Council of Trent, but from the