ng the penalties established by law;
besides which he would proceed to punish the scandal caused in this
community by his having affixed decrees in which the said provisor
was said to be excommunicated."

Father Villar replied, declaring his charge as apostolic judge
conservator, and that, as such, "he must proceed in the said
cause. Accordingly, he petitions and requests his Lordship to cease
to proceed in the said visit, that he has intended to make in the
said mission of Dilao; and that he send all that has been written
and done to the said judge conservator; and if not, the latter will
proceed to what is advisable, in accordance with law. In respect to the
provisor, through his having incurred that contained in the said canon,
_si quis suadente_, he ordered that he be proclaimed in the public
parts of this city as excommunicated, so that all may know of it,
and that no person remove, or cause to be removed, the said posters,
under penalty of greater excommunication, _ipso facto incurrenda_ ... "

In view of the aforesaid, and considering that the Audiencia gave
no support to the archbishop, so that he might prosecute the said
visit that he had begun, he insisted no further on it. But "so that
the aforesaid might be apparent to his Majesty, and that the latter
might provide what relief he pleased, the archbishop ordered--and
he did so order--a testimony to be sent to the royal Council of the
Yndias of all that had been done, and that the briefs mentioned in
this act be sent also ... "

At the same time he wrote the following letter to his Majesty:]

Sire.

Finding myself obliged, both by the holy council of Trent and a brief
of his Holiness Gregory Fourteenth, and by the restraining decrees of
your Majesty, in regard to the visiting of the religious missionaries
by the bishops--respecting curacies, and that they do not exercise
such office without being examined beforehand in the language of
the natives that they administer--I determined to carry out so holy
mandates, from which so many blessings must result to the service of
God and that of your Majesty. Accordingly, having declared my purpose
to the superiors of the said orders, three months before beginning the
said visit, by means of a letter or notification which I gave them,
in which I cited the passages of the said holy council, the brief of
his Holiness, and the decrees of your Majesty, they responded to me
orally, saying that they had an indult from hi