as Islands, the East
and West Indias, the islands and mainland of the Ocean Sea; archduke
of Austria: duke of Borgona, Bramonte, and Milan; count of Axpurg,
Flandes, Tirol, Barcelona, Vizcaya, and Molina, etc.: Inasmuch as
Don Pedro de Monrroy proceeded, when provisor of the archbishopric
of Manila, against Licentiate Don Francisco de Saavedra Valderrama,
auditor of my royal Audiencia and Chancilleria established in the city
of Manila, of my Filipinas Islands, on the ground that he had taken the
notary, De Vega [_i.e._, Diego?] Soto from the church, where he had
taken refuge because of the criminal suit that was being prosecuted
against him for the falsehoods and theft with which he is charged in
regard to the silver lacking in the wreck of the ship "Sant Nicolas
de Tolentino" (he being the notary of that ship), it was ordered
that he be restored to the church under penalty of certain fines and
censures. Notwithstanding that he appealed in due time and form, and
threatened the royal aid against fuerza, and Licentiate Marcos Zapata
de Galvez, my fiscal in the said Audiencia (who took part in the cause
because of what pertains to my royal jurisdiction), did the same,
the person aforesaid [_i.e._, Pedro de Monroy] continued to prosecute
the said suit, with greater penalties and censures. Therefore, the
said my fiscal presented himself in the said my Audiencia in the
said appeal from fuerza. Having examined the acts in the matter, it
was decreed by an act, on the seventh of the present month and year
of the date of this my letter, that the said provisor was declared
to have employed fuerza, and he was ordered to recall and repeal his
acts; and the aforesaid [provisor] must freely allow the said appeals
before the superior judge, who should annul all that had been done and
enacted in prejudice of those appeals. He was to raise and remove the
censures and interdicts which had been laid, and absolve those who had
been excommunicated. Although he ought, in accordance with law, to obey
and observe the tenor of the aforesaid decree, not only did he not do
so, but on the contrary, adding fuerza to fuerza, he excommunicated
Auditor Don Alvaro de Mesa y Lugo, auditor of the said my Audiencia,
with new fines and censures. Therefore, at the petition of the said
my fiscal, my first and second letters were issued and despatched by
the said my Audiencia as royal decrees, ordering that the tenor of the
said act should be observed and kept,