permission of the ordinaries of those places, or of any other persons, shall be necessary.  And moreover, by the same authority and tenor, we decree and ordain that the said bishop shall make no innovation in the places of those regions where there are monasteries of religious who exercise the care of souls.  So likewise [we decree and ordain] that it must be resolved and determined by any judges and commissaries, who exercise any authority whatever, delegated to them or to any one of them, to him determining and interpreting otherwise by virtue of any authority whatever; and we declare null and void whatever else shall be attempted in regard to these things, by anyone under any authority whatever....  Given at Rome, at St. Peter’s, under the seal of the fisherman, March 23, 1567.”

See Pastells’s Colin, ut supra, iii, p. 678.

[18] The passage referred to above, which we translate from the original bull as given in Pastells’s Colin, ut supra, p. 678, is as follows: 

“Since, therefore, our predecessor Pope Pius V of happy memory, after hearing of the troubles which were said to have been inflicted on the friars of the mendicant orders by the ordinaries of the places and the rectors of ecclesiastical parishes in many ways, in regard to ... the care of souls and the administration of the sacraments ... not only decreed many things differently in certain of his letters to the said friars, but even those things that were recently decreed in regard to these things in the council of Trent, ... we ... decree and ordain concerning the said and concerning all other letters and regulations which emanated in any manner from the same predecessor concerning those matters to any orders and congregations of any regulars, including the mendicants, and concerning all and whatever is contained therein, that that regulation and decision, which was legal before the declaration of the said letters and regulations, whether by the ancient law, or by the holy decrees of the said council, or in any other way, be regarded as having force hereafter, and which they would have, had not those letters and regulations emanated, to which regulation and decision and to their former undiminished condition and limitation, we reduce them all....  Given at Rome, at St. Peter’s, in the year of the incarnation of our Lord, 1572 [sic] on the kalends of March.”

[19] Monitoria:  Summons issued by an ecclesiastical judge to command the personal appearance and deposition of a witness.

[20] The original of this letter is conserved in the Archivo general of Sevilla; its pressmark, “Cartas y expedientes del Arzobispo de Manila; anos 1579-1697; est. 68, caj.  I, leg. 32.”

[21] This document is obtained from Pastells’s Colin, iii, pp. 685, 686.  The original decree is conserved in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; its pressmark the same as that indicated in note 14, ante.