e said here. May God preserve your
Lordship for happy years. Given at the palace, November 21, 1635.

_Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera_"

Since the above letter makes mention of the forcing of the guardhouse,
I shall narrate to your Grace what occurred. Don Pedro de Monrroy,
since he was not provisor, left the city. The governor, fearing that
if he returned hither, the matter would be more unsettled than ever,
left orders at the city gates that Don Pedro should not be allowed
to enter, should he make the attempt. But on November 21--on the same
day and at the same hour when the governor was with the archbishop in
the convent of St. Francis, trying to settle the matter--the said Don
Pedro Monrroy, clad as a Franciscan friar, with another Franciscan
friar as companion, attempted to enter by a gate near the convent of
St. Dominic, at the time of the Ave Marias. A great number of religious
went out of the convent to receive him. The commandant at the gate,
one Alferez Don Francisco de Ribera, recognized him; he seized him, and
called out to his soldiers to take their arms, and prevent Don Pedro's
entrance. But there were so many friars of St. Dominic, who charged
down and defended him by fighting with their fists, that the soldiers
could not use their weapons or prevent his entrance. Consequently,
forcing the guardhouse, they took him into the city. The governor
felt just anger at this. He ordered the commandant and soldiers to be
arrested, and he was about to garrote the commandant and punish the
soldiers for not having obeyed his order. They exculpated themselves
quite sufficiently in the report that they made of having done their
utmost, but that the fury of the religious gave them no time to do any
more. The governor in great anger wrote to the father vicar-provincial
of St. Dominic, Fray Antonio Gonsalez, regarding the matter; and the
latter responded very coolly that his religious had not done such a
thing, and that he had proof and information to the contrary. The
father vicar added that Don Pedro de Monrroy had entered the city
in obedience to the summons of the Inquisition. For your Grace
must suppose that as the friars saw the matter was ending ill, and
as their passion against the fathers of the Society was so great,
they endeavored by all means to make it a case of Inquisition against
them. Therefore, on November 19, the father commissary sent for a copy
of the act of the judge-conservator, in which the l