Note 4 — EVENTS OF 1701–1715

“As soon as he took possession of his archbishopric, he began to busy himself with the building of the seminary of San Phelipe; and the first error that he committed was, to place the arms of the cabildo on the front of the edifice together with the arms of the king, which he placed on one of the stories. He also drew up the instructions for this collegiate seminary; and when he came to the admission of students he did not remember the [rights of the] royal patronage, and arranged for their admission without mentioning the vice-patron. The king’s fiscal, who saw therein one of his Majesty’s prerogatives wounded, strongly opposed the exercise of the archbishop’s claims, and from this ensued some mortifications to his illustrious Lordship; but the college was completed, and the seminarists were appointed, as the king commanded.” (Zúñiga, Hist. de Philipinas, pp. 417, 418.) ↑