Satisfaction given by the Board of the Santa Misericordia to all
this city, in answer to certain words of the opposing manifesto,
which charge it with omission; proving that it could not, or ought
not, immediately upon the death of Captain Manuel Lobo, fulfil the
terms of his will, or distribute his wealth in accordance with his
last wishes, until the time that it did do so by the direction of the
learned opinion of the professors of the royal university of this city.
[The faithful administration of wills has ever been one of the chief
glories of the brotherhood. The above-mentioned captain dies in the
Marianas, September 8, 1709, leaving the board as his executor, and
his mother as his heir. In this chapter the words of the manifesto
charging the brotherhood with neglect in not settling up the will
above mentioned in more than fifteen years, are cited; and then by
means of arguments, letters and the opinion of the professors of the
university, full answer is made to the charge, and the action of the
brotherhood justified.]