Note 69 — Chapter X · THE AUDIENCIA AND THE CHURCH: THE ROYAL PATRONAGE
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The Dominicans were more successful in the maintenance of an educational institution.69 On the occasion of the extension of the charter of the University of Santo Tomás on May 17, 1680, the king ordered “my president and the auditors of my Audiencia of that city, and request and charge the archbishop of the city, the bishops of the said islands, the ecclesiastical and secular cabildos, the superiors of the orders, and any other of my judges and justices,” ... to acknowledge the University of Santo Tomás as a beneficiary of the royal patronage. Its title was formally extended on June 21, 1681, by act of the audiencia.70 The tribunal not only exercised the right of patronage over the Dominican university, but also over the College of San Juan de Letrán, a seminary for boys which was founded in 1640 and maintained by the Dominicans as an adjunct to Santo Tomás.