removed and extended to Philipinas.  The vice-provincial was notified of Paul V’s brief, of the extinction of the province, and the submission to the calced religious, who began to make use of violent acts of superiority.  Although counsel was taken with erudite men regarding that difficulty, yet in view of that so executive brief, they wavered in their opinions.  The only thing that militated against the brief was that it was not passed by the royal Council.  But since it had to do with government and monarchy, it was at least binding on the inner court of the conscience, especially on subjects who had given a special and solemn obedience to the pontiff, in regard to the internal government of their institutes.  These so violent disturbances had some rest in the election of provincial in the person of the father maestro, Fray Miguel Garcia Serrano.  In it the offices of the convents and ministries of the discalced were confirmed to the persons who held them, and in the same manner; all taking care, after the representations of such a prelate, to honor and protect so afflicted a family.

17.  Those so complicated causes for disquietude saddened extraordinarily the venerable father, Vice-provincial Fray de San Geronimo.  He, upon seeing his edifice being destroyed gradually in this manner, and that its ruin was a foregone conclusion by such measures, determined, notwithstanding his age, and the catastrophes that usually happened, to return to Espana, in order to solicit and promote the quiet of his reformed branch, and help for the preaching and conservation of the Indians, by communicating in person to the Catholic king his fortunate beginnings, being confident in the royal and benignant attachment to his person, and his merits.  His receipt of certain letters, however, compelled him to cut short the voyage.  Those letters assured him that the mind of the monarch was made up to appoint him as bishop in one of the vacant sees of these islands.  In order that those obligatory despatches might not find him in the islands, and as he found a suitable opportunity, he embarked in a vessel to make his voyage by way of India.  That unusual effort also was frustrated, because he was attacked by his last illness on the high sea, at the parallel of Ormuz.  During it he edified the sailors greatly by his excellent disposition, and his conformity to the divine will, in whose kiss he delivered up his spirit.  Very sorrowfully they cast him into the sea, the common tomb of sailors who happen to die thus.

18.  Although few, those reformed religious, condescending at repeated urging, accepted a foundation in the port of Cavite.  There lived the seamen, who, accustomed to dangers, are also reckless in vices.  Men of nationalities distinct in religion and sect were wintering there because of the heavy commerce, and through their frequent intercourse their morals were becoming relaxed.