ace and harmony between
the two jurisdictions--ecclesiastical and secular; for the provisors
who have governed in this vacant see have been more learned and more
peaceable than was the archbishop. May it please God that it may
be the same in the time of Don Fray Hernando Guerrero, to whom your
Majesty has granted the favor of this archbishopric.

The latter presented before the cabildo of this cathedral a decree
from your Majesty, despatched in the ordinary form, so that the
government should be given to him while waiting for the bulls from his
Holiness. It is not the said cabildo who governs, but Don Fray Pedro
Arce, bishop of Zibu, by virtue of a brief of his Holiness and a decree
of your Majesty. They order that during the first three vacancies of
this archbishopric (which began to be reckoned from the date of the
brief), the cabildo should not govern, but the senior bishop of the
islands (who is at present the bishop of Zibu); for it was considered
unadvisable for the government to be entrusted to the cabildo for the
space of three years--the least time that a vacancy can last here. Upon
this occasion the cabildo responded that it could not give to the
archbishop-elect the government that it did not possess. The bishop of
Zibu says that he cannot leave the government without a special order
from your Majesty and from his Holiness, who are the persons who have
given it to him. After receiving this reply, the archbishop-elect
came on appeal from fuerza to the Audiencia. They, after having
thoroughly aired the matter, judged that there was no occasion [for
this plea], because the documents lacked some clauses requisite to
make them effective, and the cabildo had not committed fuerza. They
told the archbishop to prefer his claims before him who had the right
[to judge his case]. The good archbishop was desirous of governing,
and accordingly, took hold of the affair with too much energy, aided
by his natural disposition, which is not so moderate as his dignity
demands. He thinks that we are all to blame, and I in particular;
accordingly, he shows me little favor. I mention this so that in case
that he should write anything against me, your Majesty may be warned,
and give no credit to his relation until the proof of it be adduced.

The decree in which your Majesty lays down the order that must be
observed in the changing of missions and in the appointment of the
ministers thereof on account of the death of their predeces