ared against the archbishop, saying that the judge-conservator had
used no fuerza. The latter continued to urge his censures against the
archbishop, who, destitute of all aid, determined to surrender and
withdraw the acts. He first made a protest before Diego de Rueda,
royal notary and a familiar of the Holy Office, in regard to the
fuerza that the governor and the judge-conservator were employing
against him. When the governor learned of the protest that the
archbishop had made, he had the notary, Diego de Rueda, arrested,
through the agency of the judge-conservator, and locked him up in
the castle of Santiago, after having taken from him his deposition
as to the contents of the protest--for the governor had been informed
that it was a defamatory libel against him. The notary declared that
the protest of the archbishop contained no special clause that was
prejudicial to anyone, but that it was directed only to the defense
of his rights. After the arrest of the notary, the judge-conservator
fulminated new censures against the archbishop, ordering him to annul
the protest. The archbishop treated those censures as invalid, for the
judge-conservator's jurisdiction did not extend to the trial of that
question. He further replied that the said protest no longer remained
in his possession, as it had been given to father Fray Diego Collado
to keep. He contented himself with this reply, being unwilling again
to attempt the remedy of having recourse to the Audiencia by a plea
of fuerza, whence he knew that he would issue ill-despatched. The
archbishop retired to the convent of St. Francis, where the governor
went to see him, pretending that he wished to serve as intermediary
between the archbishop and the judge-conservator, although it was
clear that all the actions of the latter were regulated according
to the governor's intentions, and were executed by his aid. At the
end of his visit he asked the archbishop to give him the protest,
pledging his word that he only desired to burn it, without reading
it or showing it to any one. The archbishop recognized the purpose
of his pretense, and reaffirmed the first reply that he had given
the judge-conservator. In order to free himself for the time being
from the importunities of the governor, it was necessary to give him
some hope that he would make the efforts possible to get hold of the
protest and send it to him. In a letter that he sent afterward to
the governor, he wrote the follow