which he had
been proclaimed as a criminal by many heavy charges, which demanded a
rigorous sentence and deprivation of the benefice that he held; and
it was impossible to give him the collation for so lofty a dignity
according to the holy canons and council. The archbishop refused to
commit a like act of injustice, whereupon Don Andres Arias Xiron,
aggrieved, interposed the appeal from fuerza, which the auditor
Zapata did not fail to declare against the archbishop. He did this,
and despatched a royal decree for it, which the archbishop refused to
obey. The governor was very angry at not succeeding with his attempt,
and because the archbishop had not given the canonical collation to
Don Andres Arias Xiron. That strife increasing in violence by means of
the interlocutors, Don Andres and the auditor, the declared enemies
of the archbishop, assemblies and meetings were held in order to
exile the archbishop from the kingdom, because he did not obey the
royal decrees. In conclusion, they issued a decree for his exile,
and notified the archbishop of it May 9, 1636.

The archbishop called a meeting of the orders, in order to consult
them and get their advice in so urgent a case. All were of the opinion
that the archbishop ought not to yield, since what they were trying
to compel him to do was manifestly unjust. They exhorted him to be
constant in defending the ecclesiastical immunity, and the observance
of the holy canons; for that, in case he were exiled, he was suffering
for defending his church as a good shepherd, and it was enough to
acquire the aureola of a martyr. Upon this the archbishop took the
resolution to suffer for his church, with a valor and constancy worthy
of wonder. The party of the governor having learned this, and that
the archbishop would not yield his right, the governor determined to
execute what had been decided by what he called the royal Audiencia.

The evening of that same day, Friday, May 9, the governor summoned
the auditor Zapata and the fiscal to a meeting. After the meeting
they sent the chief constable of that court with orders to execute
the banishment of the archbishop. He was given such aid of soldiers
as the governor deemed sufficient. The latter also sent other squads
to the cathedral church, so that they might take their station in the
sacristy of the most holy sacrament, so that it might not be taken
out or destroyed. That order went forth and immediately the city
learned of the impio