race,
and what a good inclination in a notary of so holy, upright, and
dispassionate a tribunal as is that of the holy Inquisition! Finally,
the father commissary asked the judge-conservator to surrender to
him an information that he had brought against Don Pedro de Monrroy,
because he had said that Lutero and Calvino [_i.e._, Luther and Calvin]
and other heretics had not done so much harm to the Church of God as
had the fathers of the Society. The judge gave him the original, but
kept a copy, which the father commissary also sent to get from him. The
judge refused to give it to him, saying that he could not give it up,
and that it was necessary to adduce in the cause; and that although
it pertained to the father commissary, as far as it was a mischievous
statement, yet it pertained to the judge himself, so far as if was
an injury against the Society, of whom he was the conservator. The
father commissary notified him, besides, that he himself would send
to demand the protest or defamatory libel, since, being such, it
pertained to the Inquisition to try it. The judge answered him that
it did not pertain exclusively to the Inquisition, and that he had
begun to try that cause, as it concerned the principal cause. The
father commissary served many different notifications on the judge,
in which it could be plainly seen that he was trying to embarrass the
affair, so that if should not proceed further. Accordingly, the judge
notified the commissary, or rather, father Fray Francisco de Herrera,
not to lay obstacles in the path of his apostolic jurisdiction, and to
cause him no hindrance in it. In order to conclude this part of the
matter, I shall cite here the answer given by the judge-conservator
to an act by the father commissary; it is as follows:

"I, Don Fabian de Santillan y Gavilanes, schoolmaster of the holy
cathedral church of this city, apostolic judge-conservator for the
observance and immunity of the privileges, rights, and actions,
of the Order of the Society of Jesus, etc., declare that, having
examined the reply of the reverend father Fray Francisco de Herrera,
commissary of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, given to the act
issued by myself on the twenty-eighth of the present month and year,
he says therein that he is not trying and never has tried to disturb
the peace, or anything that the said judge-conservator could do in
its defense; but only to take cognizance of what pertains to the
Holy Office of the I