Note 11 — ERECTION OF THE MANILA CATHEDRAL1

Likewise, by the same authority, we resolve and ordain that, in order that any cleric of our said church and diocese having first tonsure enjoy [his] privilege, he must carry the clerical tonsure11 of the size of one silver real [regalis] of the usual money of Spain; his hair at the back of the head shall he wear clipped with scissors [scisirra] only for two fingers’ breadth below the ears; he shall go decently appareled, namely, with a cloak, or mantilla, or robe, commonly styled loba, or a closed or open mantle reaching to the ground, not however of red or yellow, but of some quiet color, which is to be used not only for the outside clothing, but for the inner also.