nquisition in order to fulfil his obligation
(to which pertains all that of which he has been notified), and to
obtain the papers regarding the said causes, according to the terms
of the briefs of the supreme pontiffs, so that no paper shall remain
in possession of any judge, notary, or any other person; and that
the said judge-conservator has no brief to oppose to this, nor can he
have such. As for the chief order in the said my act, it is not that
the said reverend father commissary should not disturb the peace, nor
do all that which he may do in defense of it, but that he restrain
himself from hindering and disturbing, in any manner, the exercise
of my apostolic jurisdiction, which I am actually exercising; and,
especially, that he do not ask for papers which do not pertain to him,
but to my court and to the cause that I have in hand. Such are the
papers that the said reverend father commissary asks from me; for the
originals of those which belong to the cause of Don Pedro de Monrroy
I have delivered without waiting to have them asked from me, as I
have mentioned in the said my act--only because in a certain manner
they may belong to the said tribunal of the holy Inquisition. But
they belong principally to my court, and to the cause that I have
in hand; for the words spoken by the said Don Pedro de Monrroy are
especially injurious and insulting to the said Society of Jesus and
its religious. It is necessary for this reason that an authenticated
copy of the papers which I delivered to the said reverend father
commissary remain in the records of this cause, in order that I may
not fail in my duty and jurisdiction, and that I may give a good
account to his Holiness of the affairs under my charge. As for the
assertion that the briefs of the supreme pontiffs order that the said
tribunal of the Holy Office shall obtain all the papers (both original
and copies) touching the causes that pertain to the Holy Office, and
that no paper remain in possession of any judge, notary, or any other
person--that is understood, as is apparent from the said briefs, to
mean the causes which belong strictly to the said tribunal of the Holy
Office, and to no other court. Likewise, those which are asked from me
belong--inasmuch as they contain injurious and insulting words against
the said Society, whose apostolic judge-conservator I am--peculiarly
and chiefly to my court; and if I handed them over I would be greatly
delinquent in the obligatio