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end that they should not, either wholly or in part, reach the 

 hands of the ordinary. As both these pretensions were set up 

 at the same time, so as to lead to a suspicion that it was at 

 once the wish of the ecclesiastics to persevere in carrying on a 

 traffic, and that of the visitors to continue to receive bribes for 

 concealing the proceedings, their aim was readily defeated, 

 and the excommunications of the council of Lima maintained 

 without any abatement. It does not behove us to examine 

 whether this salutary discipline is stridtly observed at the pre- 

 sent time. 



The second council celebrated by Santo Toribio, and the 

 fourth in order of the councils of Lima, assembled in 1591, 

 and confirmed all the decrees of the preceding one, at the 

 same time that a new decree was enabled, enjoining all the 

 ecclesiastics entrusted with the cure of souls, to have in their 

 possession the a6ls of the council of 1583, the catechism in 

 dialogues, and the two smaller catechisms. The visitors were 

 ordered to attend zealously to the stri6l enforcement of this 

 provision. It appears by the deliberations of this council, 

 that disputes subsisted at that time between the priesthood and 

 the state, more particularly on the subje6l of the immunities 

 and competence of the jurisdi6lions ; — a question which has 

 at all times occupied a great portion of the time of the tribu- 

 nals. A publication was also made of the ceremonial, or Reg- 

 la consueta, for the good order and decorum to be observed in 

 the worship of the cathedral church of Lima. The arch- 

 bishop Santo Toribio, and the bishop of Cusco, alone were 

 present at this council, the other bishops of the province 

 having sent their procurators. 



Santo Toribio, who continued to promote the discipline of 



the 



