of his Holiness Gregory XIV which his Majesty sent to these islands,
and which was obtained at his instance, under date of Roma, April 18,
1591, the first year in which he commits to the archbishop of Manila
the adjustment and restitution of what the conquistadors and other
persons had in charge among the Indians, and prohibits religious from
going from a pacified district to convert one unpacified, without the
permission of the bishops, there is a clause of the following tenor
...: _Praeteria cum praecipuum munus Episcoporum sit proprias oves
per se ipsos pascere et visitare_. [7]

In regard to the second part of the two things ordered by the holy
council--that is, that the religious, before they can exercise the
duties of the care of souls, must first get the consent of, and be
examined by, the bishops or their vicars--that order also appears
today in its entire force and vigor. For although it is true that his
Holiness Pius V reserved the said religious from the said permission
and examination, by the two privileges above mentioned, afterward
his Holiness Gregory XIII reduced these and all the other favors and
concessions given to the mendicant orders by Pius V to the terms of
law and the holy council of Trent, as appears by his _motu proprio_
given at Roma, on the kalends of March, 1573, the first year of his
pontificate, whose beginning is _In tanta rerum_, etc., and which
father Fray Manuel Rodriguez inserted in the book that he published
concerning the privileges of the orders, [8] in number 38 of those
of that same supreme pontiff.

Although it is true that it is stated in the memorial which the Order
of St. Francis in Nueva España presented regarding the substance
of the privileges of the mendicant orders in the Yndias, at the
provincial council that was convened in Mexico in the year 1585,