s confession, in which, although he did not tell openly all
that the protest contained, he made known sufficient of it so that one
could get light on the matter. The judge-conservator petitioned the
governor for the aid of the civil arm, and on Friday, November 16,
arrested the clerk by its help. The commissary of the Holy Office,
Fray Francisco de Herrera, of the Order of St. Dominic, came out to
demand his familiar from the judge-conservator. The judge answered that
he had already taken his statement; that, although he had arrested him
so that he might declare more, the man was no longer necessary to him;
and that it did not concern him, and they should demand the familiar
from the governor, who had him. The father commissary answered that the
reply of the judge was not satisfactory, and that his familiar should
be handed over to him. The judge answered that in writing, as follows:

"In the city of Manila, November twenty-three, one thousand six
hundred and thirty-five. Don Fabian de Santillan y Gavilanes,
schoolmaster of the holy cathedral church of this said city,
apostolic judge-conservator of the Order of the Society of Jesus,
etc., declared that [he makes this declaration] inasmuch as the
reverend father preacher Fray Francisco de Herrera, of the Order of
St. Dominic, commissary of the Holy Inquisition in these islands,
sent him an oral message by the accountant, Alonso Baesa del Rio,
notary-public and apostolic notary of this tribunal, yesterday,
Thursday, between six and seven in the morning, asking to have Diego
de Rueda sent to him (as he said that he had arrested him), for a
certain declaration that he had need of making before the said father
commissary. To that message the said judge-conservator also responded
orally, saying that although he had arrested the said Diego de Rueda,
because of what pertained to his office as judge-conservator, it was
two days since he had finished with him, and that the said Diego de
Rueda was no longer held prisoner at his account. Therefore, he should
go to Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, governor and captain-general
of these islands, to ask for him. Nevertheless, after his declaration
that he was not holding the said Diego de Rueda a prisoner, the said
father commissary, by an act that he issued today, ordered the said
judge-conservator, under penalties and censures, to deliver the said
Diego de Rueda within two hours, and he was notified of it at the hour
of nine in the