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]

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be refused further consideration. And to the end
that his plea be drawn up according to the requirements of law, and for the better confutation of the
reasons advanced in the said memorial, he [i.e.,
Solana] maintains that what was petitioned for and
obtained by the opponents in the warrant (which
was secured through the aid of money) was the
establishment of a university like those at Avila and
Pamplona. But in order to avoid raising the question of temporal privileges with the necessary expenses therefor, as well as because the paper to be
sent to Rome had to be of similar tenor, it was
trickily drawn up, and the petition for a university
made to read as for one like Lima and Mexico,
whereof the reasons advanced in the said suit
were set forth in full form, whence it follows that
it is not entitled to any further consideration; especially so, since the concession made by his Holiness was according to the tenor of the clear and
truthful petition that had been presented to him,
without taking into consideration the ulterior meaning that through deceit and malice had been
introduced into the report and the subsequent
decree thereon. Nor should so important a defect
be glozed over with the assertion that the said paper
bore the signatures of the president and the members
of your Council (whereof there is no evidence)
while the very contrary is evident in the acts. [Let
it be noted] that considerable time has passed, while,
moreover, the proceedings have taken for granted
the certainty that those acts should have in similar
matters-besides the facts that, in the endeavor to
secure a bull, the accompanying statement was vague
in that no mention was made therein of the authority