m an apostolic notary, without
approval. In regard to this matter long opinions were uttered by each
side, which were finally settled by admitting Senor Guerrero after he
swore to present himself with the bulls and pallium within a year. In
accordance with this, possession was given to him on June 25, 1635.

Don Fray Hernando de Guerrero began to govern this church at the same
time that Don Sebastian de Corcuera these islands: At the beginning
there were abundant indications of what would happen at the end;
for the new governor showed himself so greatly bent on increasing
his own jurisdiction that it was necessary to act with severity,
and not to allow him to make precedents by which certain notions
(already beginning to be apparent when he was governor of Panama)
which he had in mind should be established. That gentleman was at
once very prudent, very harsh and austere, very tenacious in his
resolutions, and wedded to his own notions--which is the occasion for
the greatest errors in princes; for by not yielding, in matters that
self-love adopts as certain, they allow themselves to be carried over
any precipice. This passion was greatly predominant in that gentleman
and was the cloud that obscured other talents, worthy of esteem, that
adorned him. Immediately occasions of dispute arose between the two,
not because Guerrero tried to meddle with the civil government, but
because the governor was trying to govern both estates, by giving
unfair interpretations to several matters called by the name of
"royal patronage;" these are delicate to handle, and the attention
with which they ought to be treated is not bestowed on them. Don Fray
Hernando greatly regretted the unavoidable occasions that arose,
and feared that by the precedent of the first disputes all those
which might afterward arise would be regulated; and accordingly,
he tried not to weaken at the beginning, which is the time when one
must pay heed in order to avoid consequences.

The first occasion when the governor contrived to introduce himself
into the ecclesiastical government more than was his right, was in
trying to aid father Fray Diego Collado of the Order of Preachers in
the division which the latter was attempting to make of the province of
Santo Rosario, under the title of "Congregation of San Pablo," dividing
the province into two parts. For that purpose the father had brought
a company of religious, who were called "barbados," because they wore
long