e the fear which seized the
religious orders in this matter, that they must place the governor on
the excommunicated list; and how many actions that he had committed for
which, as they said, he had incurred excommunication--so much so, that
in a paper that appeared afterward, there was mention of twenty-five
excommunications that he had, in their opinion, incurred; and I do not
know whether there are any more in the law. With that petition they
presented a paper proving that the governor was excommunicated, and
speaking indecorously of him, saying that he was a mean and foolish
gentleman. The dean, who is a discreet man and aged, was quite far
from assenting to the request made of him, as he saw that they were
uneasy and their disturbance was superfluous.

The judge-conservator afflicted the archbishop with new censures
and penalties to get him to hand over the protest, but the latter
would agree to do so under no considerations. He declared that he
had given it some few days before to Fray Diego Collado of the Order
of St. Dominic, and that he could not get it back from him. The
archbishop did not consider himself as excommunicated, although he
had been declared as such. Neither did the religious consider him as
such, but persuaded him that he could say mass, and he did so. The
religious went in and out of his archiepiscopal palace as before,
holding meetings and causing trouble in the community. Therefore,
measures were taken to establish some sentinels at the archbishop's
door, so that so many religious might not enter to disturb him;
but the fathers of the Society interceded with good results, so
that the sentinels should be removed. That was done immediately. The
archbishop left his house on the twelfth of November and retired to
[the convent of] St. Francis. On the eighteenth, the four provincials
of the said four orders went to consult the governor. He told them not
to overturn the community as they were doing. All the efforts possible
were made and various means were taken to get hold of the protest,
since it was fundamental to the conclusion of the peace which was
desired. The archbishop wrote the following letter to the governor
from the convent of St. Francis:

"Sir:

"Since your Lordship did me the kindness to come to console me and show
me favor, I have made the most strenuous efforts in the world to have
the protest returned to me; but it is hammering on cold iron. What
can I do? For if my intent had b