e our people safe--which
also is shown in the reports.

Furthermore, after promising obedience to our king and to the governor
on his behalf, they have rebelled and renounced obedience, as we
have said; and this is the third of the reasons which, as we said,
justify the war.

Finally, the war is justified by their failure to keep their word
and their pledges of friendship; for, as is well known, they have
again and again, in the time of previous governors, been reconciled
and have promised friendship, and thus have obtained pardon for
their acts. And in the year just past this was done with greater
formality and more solemn assurances, as appears from the record;
but notwithstanding this, breaking the compact of peace, they have
since then inflicted other and graver injuries--sallying out as
robbers into the public routes by land and by sea, making descents on
our settlements and murdering everyone on whom they can lay hands,
be they Indians or Spaniards, seculars or ecclesiastics. Indeed, it
is well known that last year they murdered a religious of our order,
and they were tracking our provincial and two others, his companions;
but all these, thanks to their own watchfulness, escaped.

From what has been said it stands amply proved that the war to be waged
against the Zambales is a just one, and, beyond all scruple, as well
on the part of him who sets it on foot as of those who take part in it.

But it may be that some one will, in opposition to what has been
said, cite to us certain law texts to the effect that when a number
of persons or a town sins, even if all or most of them are guilty,
yet they should be pardoned. In the _Decretum_ (dist. 50, c. _ut
constitueretur_) St. Augustine says, writing to Bonifacius: _Ubi
per graves dissentionum scissuras non hujus aut illius hominis
periculum sed populorum plurimorum strages jacet, detrahendum est
aliquid severitati ut majoribus sanandis malis charitas syncera
subveniat_. [26] And (1 q. 7 c. _Quoties_) Pope Innocent, as cited by
Gratian, says: _Quoties a populis auta turba peccatur, quia in omnes
propter multitudinem vindicari non potest inultum solet transire_. [27]

Much to the same effect is what is said by Alexander III (c. _Extra,
De clerico excommunicato_), and also by Honorius III (in the
last chapter, _De transact._). And the reason for this is that in a
multitude or in a town are many innocent persons, and it were a grave
injustice to require that they sh