he case
more plausible by the detention of the bishop and his satellites at
the gate opening into the street. Meanwhile the friars had time to
notify the prior and inform the gentlemen of the royal Audiencia.

With the arrival of the prior, entrance into the convent was made easy
for his illustrious Lordship, to whom the friars set forth that they
could not gratify his wishes without first making the auditors aware
of his claims. The bishop agreed to this, but on condition that they
notify only Don Alonzo, of whom his illustrious Lordship must have been
sure. In short, the fact is that the case first reached the auditors'
ears; and they, assembled in session, issued the decrees which, as
I mentioned above, they left to the efforts of Senor Fuertes--who
in all haste went to the palace, and finding the auditors in the
council-chamber, displayed much anger that they should have made such
a decision without his presence and counsel.

Since there is no remedy, when a thing has been done, except patience,
as the common saying goes, it was now arranged that Senor Fuertes
and Senor Ozaeta should go to San Agustin to pacify the bishop, in
which task they spent the greater part of the afternoon. The unjust
things said by the bishop to Senor Ozaeta, and the uncivil language
which he tolerated from the bishop, are not fit to relate. At five
o'clock in the afternoon, the bishop went away from San Agustin quite
rebuffed but very respectfully treated by the two auditors and their
numerous companions. In front of his illustrious Lordship walked
his provisor and faithful Achates, Master Don Geronimo Caraballo,
bitterly lamenting the miserable condition in which Manila was,
since they were hindering their prelate in a resolution so just,
since it was to punish those wicked clerics who had taken refuge in
San Agustin. It is well to note the pious exclamation of this prebend,
for it will be quite important to the case afterward.

This chimerical attempt turned out badly for his illustrious Lordship
in the end; and he undertook to be revenged when one was least looking
for it. For the news having arrived, on July 30, that one of the
two galleons which were expected on the return voyage from Nueva
Espana had reached the Embocadero, and that in it was coming the
governor, there was discussion whether his illustrious Lordship was
proceeding in the execution of his designs. But it was not thus; for
his illustrious Lordship, a few days after