ing:

"After your Lordship showed me the kindness to come to console and
favor me, the most diligent efforts possible were made in order to have
the protest returned to me. But it is hammering on cold iron. What more
can I do? Had my purpose been not to show it, I could have said that
I had torn it up, or have alleged some other pretext, and would not
have indicated the person to whom I gave it to keep, as I knew that
there was an order to sequester my goods. Since it is impossible,
sir, and it is not my fault, I do not accept the excuse which your
Lordship gives me in your letter, in order to free yourself from
showing me further kindness, and from making the effort to settle this
matter as a governor and friend. Therefore, I petition your Lordship,
since this matter rests with you, and is to be settled by you alone,
and since you are all-powerful in this matter, that your Lordship do
as you are able to do for one who has recourse to your protection; for
I wish to remain in your Lordship's protection, only bound to serve
you as long as I live. May God preserve the life of your Lordship
for long years. From this convent of St. Francis, November 24, 1635.

_Fray Hernando, archbishop._"

That prelate wrote the letter with this humility and gentleness;
but it was insufficient to cause the so ingenuous confession of the
archbishop to be believed, although it was the truth.

On the other side, father Fray Francisco de Herrera, of the Order
of Preachers, commissary of the Holy Office, made a demand, asking
that the notary, Diego de Rueda, as one of his household, be given
up to him. For that purpose he fulminated censures against the
judge-conservator, demanding from him the prisoner, and ordering
him to make no further search for the protest, as that was outside
his jurisdiction. He was obeyed, and order was given to deliver
the prisoner to him; but the governor refused to deliver him
up. Consequently, the father commissary of the Holy Office sent
two religious of St. Dominic to notify the governor by another act,
similar to that sent to the judge. The governor not only did not obey
it, but arrested the two religious and sent them to Cavite with an
adjutant, and had them placed in the convent of San Telmo of their
order. Afterward, when the governor found himself at variance with
the tribunal of the Holy Office, he began to work more clearly in
the opposition that he had commenced, repeating many times that
propos