Incident of 1674 with Pasajes. Fuenterrabía would not resign itself to losing the obedience of the places over which it had held preeminence. It had a serious conflict with Pasajes in 1674. According to Gorosabel, the dispute arose from a letter that the Pasajes Town Council sent to Fuenterrabía, ordering that some of its residents stand guard at the Castle of Santa Isabel for the better security of the port. The people of Pasajes believed that such orders should have been communicated to them directly by the province or their colonel. They considered the manner in which the order was given to be a harmful novelty to their freedoms. To resolve the matter, Captain Francisco de Ugarte and Fabián de Goicoechea, alderman and deputy of Pasajes, went to Fuenterrabía, where the mayors arrested them without further procedure or cause, and held them prisoners for many days. Pasajes informed the Provincial Deputation, which led to a contentious proceeding. This was judged in Azcoitia on 9 October 1675, with the agreement of Doctor Pedro Angulo y Lugo, full professor of canon law at the University of Valladolid and lawyer of its chancery, who sided with Pasajes regarding the right to fly its flag, and to appoint captains, ensigns, and other officers in cases of war independently of Fuenterrabía. The ruling also d that Pasajes, militarily, should depend directly on the province and its colonelcy, except when Fuenterrabía had an order from the province to grant it to the places under its jurisdiction, and in cases of royal honors and flag raising. The city of Fuenterrabía appealed this decision to the Supreme Council of War, and although it issued the royal provision and citation, Gorosabel finds no further information on the outcome of the matter, which apparently remained thus concluded, or at least suspended.