A LOCAL CONFLICT AS A REFLECTION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE HISPANIC MONARCHY. THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE GOVERNOR AND THE COMMISSIONER OF THE INQUISITION IN THE PHILIPPINES IN THE MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

Abstract

In 1668, the commissioner of the Inquisition in the Philippine Islands, José de
Paternina, imprisoned and later sent Governor Diego de Salcedo to New Spain.
After the conflict that this action generated, the Council of the Indies and the
Council of the Supreme Inquisition had to intervene. The objective of this text is
to review how the historiography analyzed the case and present some new
considerations from the analysis of the file that contains the investigation carried
out by the Court of the Inquisition of Mexico. The hypothesis that is exposed is
that the form of government of the Hispanic Monarchy caused these conflicts
among its different government institutions and, at the same time, had the capacity
to resolve them without actually causing major conflicts.