Volume 20 — Ordering the Dominicans Not To Meddle in Government Affairs

I The King

By order of the king, our sovereign: Juan Ruiz de Contreras Signed by the Council.

[Endorsed: “To the provincial of the Order of St. Dominic of the Philipinias Islands, ordering him to summon the religious of his order, and censure them for their irregularities, warning them to engage only in their devotions and conversion of souls, without meddling in government matters or in any other matter that does not concern their order.”]