iae (sicut etiam pollicemini) et non dubitamus pro
vestra maxima devotione et regia magnanimitate vos esse facturos,
ad terras firmas et insulis praedictas, viros probos...._ [11]

And Adrian VI, in his _Omnimodo_, as follows: _Dum tamen sint tales
sufficientiae ..._ and of the right of the royal patronage. [12]

And since it is now his Majesty's will that the fitness and approval
of the said religious in regard to curas must be to the satisfaction
of the bishops, which he says to be thus advisable for the discharge
of his royal conscience and that of the said bishops, it is clear
that we are bound to fulfil it as a command of the holy apostolic see.

The above is in respect to the mandates of his Holiness. Coming to
that which is ordered in this regard by the decrees of his Majesty,
it appears that his Majesty having despatched his royal decree on the
sixth of December, 1585, that if there were any capable clergy they
should be preferred, in the benefices and missions of the Indians
to the religious who held them, and who should have held them, by
virtue of another royal decree of May twenty-five, of five hundred
and eighty-five, his Majesty gave notice to the Order of St. Francis,
of Nueva Espana, that he had ordered the suspension for the time being
of the execution of this decree; and that the said missions be held,
as hitherto, by the orders and religious; that there be no innovation
in the manner of presentation and appointment; that the bishops
in their own persons (these are the words of the royal decree),
without committing it to any others, shall visit the churches of
the missions, where the said religious may be, and in the missions
inspect the most holy sacrament, the baptismal font, the building of
the said churches, and the service of divine worship; and that they
also visit the religious who should reside in the said missions,
and correct them in matters concerning curas.

That royal decree is in the book of advice to confessors of Indians
which father Fray Juan Baptista, of the Order of St. Francis, published
in Mexico, in the year six hundred; it is on folio 380. On folio
259, it contains what the provincials of the orders of St. Dominic,
St. Francis, and St. Augustine, of the province of Mexico, answered
to it on the twenty-eighth of November, of the said year, 585. That
answer was to accept the said missions _non ex votis charitatis_,
but with the obligation of _in se et justitia_; and in regard to