her
orders. The Trappists are an offshoot of this order. See Addis and
Arnold's _Catholic Dictionary_, pp. 186-188.

[57] An ambassador (generally a cardinal or bishop) sent by the pope
to a foreign prince, with full powers.

[58] The following royal decree on this subject was issued in 1637:
"Inasmuch as I have been informed that many soldiers and sailors who
are in my service in the Filipinas Islands are becoming, and have
become, religious, while indebted in large sums of maravedis to my
royal treasury for pay which has been advanced to them; and that, after
having been for some years in the orders, they leave them and wander
about as vagabonds with the utmost freedom, and refuse to reenter
my service: desiring to apply a corrective to such delinquencies,
and the matter having been conferred over in my royal Council of
the Yndias, I have considered it fitting to issue the present. By it
I request my very reverend archbishop in Christ, the father of the
metropolitan church of the city of Manila, and charge the venerable
and devout fathers-provincial and other superiors of all the orders in
the territory of his archbishopric, to note that they are to inform
my governor of the said islands whenever such cases shall occur to
the prejudice of my treasury, and that the culprits be punished as is
fitting. No one may take the vows of religion without first satisfying
the amount that he shall thus owe. In order that the contents of
this my decree may be well known to all, I order my governor and
captain-general of the said Filipinas Islands to publish it in all
the necessary places, and to send a copy of it to the provincials of
the orders throughout the said islands, in order that they may give
to its fulfilment the earnest attention to which they are obliged;
for such is my will. Madrid, December 23, 1637."

The copy of this decree existing in the Archivo general de Indias at
Sevilla--with pressmark, "Audiencia de Filipinas; registros de oficio;
reales ordenes dirigidas a las autoridades del distrito de dicha
Audiencia; anos 1635 a 1672; est. 105, caj. 2, leg. 2, lib. 4"--bears
the following endorsement in the margin: "In order that no soldier
or sailor in the Filipinas Islands who may be indebted to the royal
treasury may take the vows of religion without first satisfying the
amount of his debt."

[59] _Dominicans_.--Domingo Gonzalez came to the islands in 1602;
for several years he was an instructor in theology in th