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other or negative side were father Fray Estacio Ortiz, the father
definitor Fray Juan de Tapia, the father visitor Fray Juan Enriquez,
[27] and the father visitor Fray Juan Villalobos. [28]
They were equally opposed. One _adito_, father Fray Antonio de
Porras, was not there. Each side put forth its efforts, working
for our Lord's service, at which all aimed, doubtless, but by
different paths. The father commissary took sides with the party
of our father master, Fray Diego de Guevara, as he thought that
the better and more justifiable. And thus this chapter disposed
of all that it had proposed. Five houses in Bisayas were left with
votes, namely, Santisimo Nombre do Jesus, Panay, Barbaran, Passi,
and Octong. Another five votes were left in Ilocos, namely, Bantay,
Ilagua, Batac, Nalbacan, and Bauang. Thus twelve votes were taken
away from the province of Bisayas, which has sixteen large convents,
leaving the vicars, immediate to the chapter, with the authority and
power in temporal and spiritual matters, as if they were priors.


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