re, later,
to the convent of the Dominicans, entering disguised, in the habit
of a Franciscan. He is a very exemplary clergyman, of good life. My
predecessor informed your Majesty of his abilities and excellent
conduct. It would greatly please me if your Majesty would order by
a royal decree that he be restored to the office of provisor and
vicar-general, which [he holds] by my consecration (which is the
only one adequate for the said office), and as there is no one else
who can fill his place in these islands. I do not dare to do this,
for the governor would oppose it, and we would have many disputes;
and Don Pedro has suffered many hardships for defending the immunity
of the church.

This city contains another grave and learned ecclesiastic, who is
called Licentiate Don Francisco Montero Saavedra, who has been visitor
for several bishoprics, and cura of the cathedral of Cebu. I sent
him to Goa in the month of December past with two other religious,
in his own boat, in order to give an account to his Holiness and to
your Majesty of the grievances and affronts which have been offered
me by the judge-conservator who was appointed by the fathers of the
Society. He must have already arrived at your court, and deserves
that your Majesty should favor him for his great ability, and for the
trouble which he has taken in returning [to Europe] for the affairs
of the church.

The third is named Master Juan de Veles, who is curate of this
cathedral of Manila. He is a learned man and a good preacher, and
exemplary in his mode of life. For two years he has been judge of
wills and chaplaincies. He sent his papers approved.

The fourth is named Licentiate Don Juan de los Cobos. He has been
governor of the archbishopric of Nueva Caceres for ten years, and
has acquitted himself well in what was entrusted to him. At present
he has just finished visiting the districts of the clergy in this
archbishopric.

The fifth is named Bachelor Amaro Diaz, who is a very virtuous
ecclesiastic, of so exemplary and moral life that no one is more so;
and he can be trusted in any matter whatever.

The sixth is named Gabriel de Muxica Buitran. He is an ecclesiastic
who has been here long, and is rather aged. He is very exemplary,
learned in archives, and very retiring.

The seventh is named Don Pedro Enriquez de Artosa. He is a gentleman,
and has attended lectures in arts and theology. He is an exemplary
ecclesiastic, and is well liked in this cit