advise their regular superiors of such persons, so that the latter may correct the wrong.  In case that the latter should not do this, then the former might make use of the authority given them by the holy council of Trent, in the manner and in the cases when they can and ought to act in regard to religious who are not curas.  In this instance I order that they have recourse to the said my viceroy, who shall appoint them and who can remove them, to represent to him the causes, so that it may be done as has been and is done in Piru.  And inasmuch as the said religious, in regard to the jurisdiction, are not endeavoring to acquire any right for the perpetuity of the said missions; and since by the aforesaid the ordinary jurisdiction is not annulled in cases that conform to law and to the holy council of Trent:  it pertains to the superiors to try the causes of the religious.  That must and shall be understood, without any prejudice to the ordinary jurisdiction and the right of my patronage.  I order all the above to be thus observed and executed inviolably by my viceroy, archbishop, bishops of Nueva Espana and all other persons whom its fulfilment concerns, notwithstanding any other orders whatever that may exist to the contrary.  Such I revoke and declare null and void.  Given in Madrid, June twenty-two, one thousand six hundred and twenty-four.

I The King

Juan Ruiz de Contreras”

And in behalf of the archbishop of the metropolitan church of the city of Manila in the Philipinas Islands, I have been requested to be pleased to declare whether the decree of November fourteen of the former year six hundred and three is to be observed in those islands, in regard to the manner in which the said religious missionaries are to be visited; or whether the visit is to be exercised with the limitation and in the form contained in the new decree which was given to Nueva Espana.  The matter having been examined in my royal Council of the Indias, I have considered it fitting to give the present.  By it I order that everything contained in the decree herein inserted be observed and obeyed by my governor, archbishop, and bishops of those islands, and by all other persons whom it concerns, exactly as is contained in it, for such is my will.  Given in Madrid, August fourteen, one thousand six hundred and twenty-four. [21]

I The King

By order of the king our sovereign: 

Juan Ruiz de Contreras

CONFLICT BETWEEN CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES

Case that happened in Manila in the year 1623, in regard to a fugitive who was taken from the church