voked, your Lordship can well understand that
we are legitimately excused from such meetings, although never from
serving your most illustrious Lordship very willingly and lovingly."

The resolution made in the meeting with the religious was, that under
no circumstances would the archbishop obey the royal decrees, besides
other disorderly things, which continued to happen, and which I shall
relate in their order.

In the afternoon of that same Friday, the archbishop sent the
monstrance with the most holy sacrament to the convent of St. Francis,
whence it was carried irreverently in his sleeve by a friar, and
taken to the house of the archbishop. The latter, at nightfall,
sent two clerics who had taken the minor orders, to excommunicate
the governor and Auditor Marcos Zapata; the latter, together with
his Majesty's fiscal, were assembled in the tribunal of the royal
Audiencia. Seeing things in so great confusion, they ordered the
clerical notaries to enter. The latter, upon reaching the tribunal,
with wisdom and prudence did not dare to give notice of anything. In
order not to lose any time, which was fast fleeting, they went first
to the doors of the auditor Marcos Zapata, and commenced to read the
excommunication by the light of a torch. But a soldier, who happened
to be passing along the street, gave the torch a flick with his hat,
and extinguished it. They were unable to proceed with the reading,
and accordingly went to give an account of events to the archbishop,
who was at home with the most holy sacrament and a great number of
religious of all the orders--except those of the Society, who were
not summoned and who did not go. The archbishop ordered the said
excommunication against the governor and Auditor Marcos Zapata to
be read at the door of the master-of-camp, Don Lorenzo Olaso. They
were read, and great bills were posted on the church doors, which
read as follows:

"Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, governor and captain-general
of these islands, and the senior auditor, Marcos Zapata de Galves,
will be considered publicly excommunicated, because they prevent the
exercise of ecclesiastical justice and the general visitation that is
being made by his Excellency Don Fray Hernando Guerrero, archbishop of
these islands. No person shall dare to remove or destroy this paper,
under penalty of major excommunication, _late sententie, ipso facto
incurrendo una protina canonica monitione premissa_, and a fine of
one