The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 36]

I649-1666] PROTEST AGAINST UNIVERSITY

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namely, canon law, civil law, and medicine, as more
fully set forth in the said memorial, the meaning
whereof to be taken for granted. Your Majesty will
be pleased to order that the same be stricken from
the judicial acts, and furthermore, that no other
petition of similar import be admitted, with the
declaration to the opposing party that, inasmuch as
the matter has already been decided [cosa juzgada]
in favor of the college of San Ignacio, which the
Society conducts in the said city, they are barred from
further relief. All which I petition for, for reasons
to be more fully described hereafter, whereon I fotnd
the necessary petitions and prayers, which, as is evident and appears, will be acknowledged throughout
the whole line of reasoning and the acts of the suit
that has been entered by the said college, as well as
from the allegations and claims deduced therein.
The claim of the college of Santo Tomas, in brief, is
the establishment of a university in order to nullify
the right and privileges of the Society and of the
said college of San Ignacio, whereon the Audiencia
of Manila has acted and delivered judgment - which
acts, on being brought before the Council on appeal,
were ended definitively in the trial and review of the
said suit. The case, therefore, is finished and closed,
and for no reason can or should it be reopened, either
in whole or part. Wherefore it results that the claim
now introduced is faulty with no other purpose than
to burden the said Society with new suits and expenses; as the case, as stated, has been decided and
closed, and the reopening of it barred, as being a
matter already determined. The said memorial
therefore should not be admitted, nor a hearing
granted to the claim advanced therein, which should