at a port
called St. Dominic. With an escort of an adjutant and twelve soldiers,
he was taken to the island of Mariveles, opposite and in sight of
this city, so that they might await the order there, and prepare a
ship and the necessary supplies to convey him outside these kingdoms.

The ecclesiastical cabildo assumed the powers of the government,
and assembled, and authorized the bishop of Camarines, Don Fray
Francisco de Zamudio, to act as provisor until the bishop of Zebu,
Don Fray Pedro de Arze, should be notified, to whom the government
of this archbishopric belongs by a bull of Paul V. However, it was
learned that he did not care to come to assume the government because
of his ill health and age; in such case, the government would pertain
legitimately to the said bishop of Camarines. He absolved the governor
and the auditor Zapata from the censures _ad cautelam_, for there were
innumerable invalidities in the censures, as they did not observe the
citations and legal terms. He raised the interdict and the suspension
of church services; and at twelve o'clock at night, at the end of
Saturday and the beginning of the Sunday of the [feast of the] Holy
Ghost, the cathedral bells were chimed. All the other bells of the
orders followed suit; and in the morning the churches were opened,
and the divine offices celebrated. Thus passed the three days of
the feast, while Fray Antonio Gonsalez preached in his convent of
St. Dominic, uttering a thousand choice things against the governor.

The governor had appointed Fray Francisco de Paula of the Order
of St. Dominic, a father of St. Augustine, and a Recollect father
as governors of the archbishopric. Father Fray Francisco de Paula,
who had been named in the first place, went to the dean, Don Miguel
Garsetas, and other prebendaries of the cabildo, with his paper, in
order to have them admit him as governor. But they did not do so,
and it appears that they were right; for it is a common judgment
of theologians and those versed in canonical law that no mendicant
religious can be a provisor or governor of a bishopric; and there is
an express prohibition in law to the Friars Minor of St. Francis.

After the feast of the Holy Ghost, on the following Wednesday, May 14,
it appears that the three orders of St. Dominic, St. Francis, and the
Recollects, determined to observe the interdict and the suspension of
divine services. Consequently, they did not open their churches; and,
altho