. Consequently,
I have done that. The archbishop gave two powers of attorney begging
that the execution of the royal decrees that have been issued against
him be suspended in the royal Audiencia, saying that he is ready to
obey and observe them. These were given to the precentor, to Don Pedro
de Quesada, to father Fray Francisco de Paula, and to the Recollect
definitor, as your Lordship will see when they are presented. There
is nothing else to write your Lordship, except that may God preserve
your Lordship long years in more important stations. From this island,
today, Wednesday, May 14, 1636. Your Lordship's most humble servant,

_Don Diego de Herrera_"

The said prebendaries consoled the archbishop, whom they found
repentant over his disobedience of the royal decrees. Accordingly, he
granted them authority to present themselves in the royal Audiencia,
to make in his name declaration to the effect that he would obey
the royal decrees, and to ask that they should not proceed farther
in exiling him from these kingdoms. The prebendaries came to Manila,
and petitioned in the royal Audiencia in the said archbishop's name, he
offering to obey the royal decrees. A copy of the petition was given to
his Majesty's fiscal, and his answer was that the archbishop could be
brought back to the kingdoms by the one who had exiled him from them.

Wednesday, May 21, the governor called a meeting of lawyers; and,
according to what I have been told, most of them delivered as their
opinion that the archbishop, although exiled, could still remain
governor of the archbishopric, but no mendicant religious could act
thus, as they were prohibited by law. And since there was no one left
but religious, it was as if he had not left them; and the cabildo
and the bishop of Camarines, to whom the cabildo gave their votes,
were governing legally. Other matters were discussed in that meeting,
of which I shall take no notice.

Monday, the twenty-fifth of the same month of May, the archbishop's
agents brought forward another petition, urging his restoration
more forcibly, and offering to obey the royal decrees--especially by
admitting Don Andres Arias Xiron to the arch deaconship and to the
chaplaincy of the royal hospital for its administration, which had
been the cause of the suits and quarrels. The royal Audiencia received
his promise, and ordered him to return to his archbishopric. Then the
royal Audiencia having reported to the governor, who