morning. The judge-conservator made the same answer
in writing that he had given orally to the said apostolic notary,
and more fully (although the said [oral] reply was sufficient). At
the hour of ten in the morning he wrote a letter to the said father
commissary, sending it by Adjutant Juan de Vega Mexia, in which he
offered to the commissary to draw up a document requiring, exhorting,
and notifying the said governor and captain-general of these islands
that, in what pertained to this court of the said apostolic judge
conservator, inasmuch as the latter had no longer anything to do with
the said Diego de Rueda, the governor should set him free and send him
to the said father commissary. The latter answered in writing through
the said adjutant, Juan de Vega Mexia, that the said governor declared
that it was not his Lordship, but the said judge-conservator, who had
arrested the said Diego de Rueda. And after the said reply, and for
greater satisfaction, and so that his obedience, as an obedient son of
the Church to the mandates of the Holy Inquisition may be recognized,
the judge-conservator thereupon petitions and supplicates--and in a
necessary case, requires, exhorts, and charges--Don Sebastian Hurtado
de Corcuera, governor and captain-general of these islands, in what
pertains to this court of the said apostolic judge-conservator,
inasmuch as the latter no longer has anything to do with the
said Diego de Rueda, to free that man and send him to the father
commissary, as the latter has ordered and commanded the said apostolic
judge-conservator, under penalties and censures. Thus did he enact,
and affixed his signature. The schoolmaster,

_Don Fabian de Santillan Y Gavilanes_

By his order:

_Alonso Baeza Del Rrio_,
notary-public and apostolic notary."

After receiving this reply, the father commissary left the judge, and
requested the governor to give him his familiar. His Lordship answered
him that the said familiar had transgressed in the exercise of his
office by having authenticated, as a royal notary, a defamatory libel;
and that the punishment for that devolved upon the royal jurisdiction,
according to the agreement in the new compilation [of laws]. The
governor sent Diego de Rueda under arrest to the fort of Cabite,
whereupon the father commissary had the governor notified of the
following act through a youthful friar called Fray Ignacio Munoz,
and another who accompanied him:

"In the city of Manila, on