(Diaz, Conquistas,
p. 766)--was sentenced to a short exile; "but God was not satisfied
with that light punishment, and accordingly took upon Himself vengeance
against that man, afflicting him with leprosy. This made him blind,
and he finally reached the utmost poverty, begging alms, with a boy
to guide him, before the gates of the convents."

The spirit of this account is echoed--rather curiously, for so late
a date as 1891--in Resena biografica, i, pp. 478-480.

[159] Pardo offered to his Dominican province the sum of thirteen
thousand pesos, to be used as endowment for three chairs--law,
medicine, and pharmacy--and for some scholarships in Santo Tomas; but
the gift was declined, as the province was neither able nor willing
to take the responsibility of administering in (Resena biografica,
i, pp. 477, 478.)

[160] In the Ventura del Arco MSS. (iii, p. 761) is an extract from
a letter by the Jesuit Pedro Cano, dated May 26, 1690, which says:
"On December 31, 1689, they found Archbishop Pardo dead in his bed,
sine cruce et sine luce, without any sacrament, through the negligence
of the people of his household and his own confidence that he was
to live a long time. For some days all his body had been swollen,
and he said that, thanks to the Lord, he was gaining flesh. In
the agonies of death, he called to his servants, who were buried in
sleep; no one heard him except Don Juan de Cazorla, a cleric whom the
archbishop kept a prisoner under his own apartment, in fetters--who
did not dare to go upstairs, lest the archbishop should learn that
his fetters were removed at night. The prelate's body, wrapped in a
loose gown, was carried to the house where Auditor Grimaldos died;
and from there to Santo Domingo, where four days later it was buried."

[161] He came with commission to bring suit against the auditors who
had banished the archbishop.

[162] He had died toward the end of the year 1683, aged more than
seventy years.

[163] Nicolas Cani was born in 1611, a Sardinian by nation; and became
a Jesuit novice March 27, 1628. In 1653 he entered the Philippine
missions, and labored in the Visayan Islands. Murillo Velarde states
(fol. 367 b) that he was unable to learn further particulars as
to Cani's life and ministries, except vague statements as to his
admirable character and some few incidents in which he figured. The
date of his death is not recorded, but signatures by him existed that
were made in 1671.

[164] Th