following tenor.
But, before mentioning the letter, I wish to recount to your Grace
certain actions of the governor, which, as the relation of the
Dominicans asserts, obliged the archbishop to assemble the bishops
and orders, and others; but which (as I suspected) happened after
the meeting, so that your Grace may see how they are stirred up,
and engaged on the side of evil. The first was, that the governor's
guard detained several priests by force one whole night, without
allowing them to leave the palace. It has been seen above already
that this happened by accident, and without the governor's order. 2d,
that he gave orders at the [city] gates for the soldiers not to allow
any ecclesiastics to leave. The justification for that was, that it
was rumored that several ecclesiastics were trying to take flight,
and to carry with them a number of soldiers and sailors who were in
the pay of his Majesty. That did in fact happen, for two religious,
one secular, and more than thirty soldiers and seamen who had just
been paid more than three thousand pesos from the royal treasury,
deserted. [Third], that he did not allow the religious to enter or
leave their convent. It has been already seen above that the occasion
for the surrounding of the convent of St. Augustine was in order to
prevent the escape of the treacherous fugitive. Consequently, all else
that happened was the over-zeal of the soldiers, who take military
orders very literally. [Fourth], that he tried to exile the provisor,
Don Pedro de Monrroy, by virtue of an old royal decree, the execution
of which had been repealed. It is outside of all truth to say that it
was repealed; for it is certain and appears that it had full force and
vigor, as I have said above. [Fifth], that he was persuaded that no
one could excommunicate him but the supreme pontiff. This opinion is
not so improbable, as I have heard discussed by men who know more than
I. But Burguillos, [55] a learned man of the Order of St. Francis,
holds and supports it valiantly; and at the least the governor, by
his membership in the habit of Alcantara, enjoys by a bull of Leo X
the privileges and immunities of the Cistercian religious; [56] and,
by another bull of Alexander III, the privileges of the knights of
Santiago, who can be excommunicated only by the supreme pontiff or
by his legate _a latere_. [57] As for saying that the governor can
exile from these islands any of his Majesty's vassals whom he wishes
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