y mass in the said hospital,
so that the hospital remained many days without succor. The governor
sent his Majesty's fiscal to bring the archbishop to reason, but he
could not do it. And although the royal Audiencia, whither recourse
was had on the plea of fuerza, declared that he had committed that
offense, not for that would the archbishop soften or change his mind.

At that time a general visitation of the clergy was ordered, and it is
wonderful to see along what rough lines the archbishop conducted it,
and what harsh methods he took, so that the remedy was worse than the
disease; he placed the clerics in irons among the negroes and vile
people, and that not for serious causes. That was a thing that tended
to produce contempt for the priestly estate; and its effect was that
all the clergy, as a body, became thoroughly disgusted, and viewed
their prelate and shepherd not as a father, but as a severe judge,
who treated them very harshly in his language--behavior which they
greatly resented. I will relate to your Grace one instance of this. I
attended the cathedral of this city on Holy Thursday, March 20. I saw
on the platform (where the oils had been blessed that morning) that
the said archbishop was clad in his pontifical robes, and that he had
been given the towel for the washing of the feet. The twelve clerics
whose feet he was to wash were already barefoot, the gospel had been
said, everything was ready, and there were many people before him. It
happened that, because some Indian singers and some one of the clergy
were absent, the archbishop began to scold, saying that it was a most
shameless act for anyone to be absent from the cathedral during that
ceremony. Then he began to disrobe himself in great wrath and fury,
also removing his pontifical ornaments in his anger, and throwing on
one side his miter (which fell to the ground), and his towel to the
other side. Thus did he continue to lay aside the rest, and with all
haste he went to his own house--leaving the priests barefooted, and
without washing their feet; and all those present, thunderstruck and
amazed, and even scandalized at the sight of so great fury and wrath
in a prelate, and during a ceremony that demanded so great humility.

But to return to our governor; there was no action, however
insignificant it may have been, that they did not for it cast calumny
on him. The archbishop and religious drew up a paper with twenty-one
questions, which the archbish