change it. Accordingly, your Grace may advise them to
prepare immediately a ship in which to embark me. I shall not fail
to have persons who will go with me, and God will defend so just a
cause and will not permit so great evils and tyrannies, for these
acts have no other name. Perhaps God is permitting this in order
that some one or some persons may pay for their evil acts--which
God allows, but not forever. All the community will judge whether
those actions are justified, and they will write to his Majesty;
since those actions stand out so clearly. May our Lord preserve your
Grace many years. From La Hermita, Friday, May 9, 1636.

_Fray Hernando_, archbishop.

"In regard to your Grace saying that the king, as sovereign, is able
to give the prebends to whom he likes, even to natives, your Grace
could not have reflected when you wrote that; since his Majesty, being
so Christian and Catholic, is not one to waste the ecclesiastical
property, for the purpose of giving it to unworthy men. And you,
your Grace, do not you venture to write such words, for they are
ill-sounding. I shall not go without forbidding the saying of mass,
and without hurling a curse, in the name of God and of the Church,
on the circumstances and persons who have caused my exile."

As the archbishop refused to obey the royal decrees, the royal
Audiencia had him notified by an act on the morning of May 9, at nine
o'clock, that the temporalities were taken from him, and that he was
declared an exile from these kingdoms. Then began the trouble. The
archbishop summoned the religious of all the orders, and notified the
father rector of the Society to go to a meeting with the rest of the
religious. The latter excused himself, for reasons that your Grace
will see in the following letter written to the archbishop:

"Most illustrious sir:

"Licentiate Don Bartolome de Canedo, coming from outside, has
just now notified me, at half-past six o'clock, to go to a meeting
which your most illustrious Lordship is holding with the religious
of our fathers St. Dominic, St. Francis, and St. Nicholas [_i.e._,
the Recollects], who drew up against the Society of Jesus the paper
and resolution that your Lordship knows of, and which has not as
yet been revoked--as we understand ought to have been done before
the matter went so far as closing the doors of the church on us, as
happened in Cabite. Consequently, so long as the said paper remains
in force and is not re