rom a painful
disease, in which the tongue with which he had spoken so much evil
of his illustrious Lordship became rotten, and the arm with which he
had seized the anointed of the Lord was withered." The auditor Viga,
who went to seize the Dominican provincial, Calderon, died in exile,
in Cagayan, without having consented to make his confession. He and
his colleague Bolivar had been sent there "for a certain sedition
which they were plotting" against Cruzalaegui. [Murillo Velarde says
(fol. 344) that they were plotting to put Zalaeta in the governor's
place.] The wife of Bolivar "died at Orion, impenitent, unwilling
to confess; when her husband heard of this, he performed condign
penitence for his sins, and publicly professed his detestation of his
transgressions, and thus he gained absolution from the censures--but,
returning from his exile, he died on the way." Calderon "also died very
suddenly, although at the hour of death he acknowledged his errors,
and, to secure absolution from the censures, made the usual profession
of detestation." The fiscal Alanis, "the only one who experienced,
while living, the punishment from the king our sovereign which deprived
of their offices all the members of the royal Audiencia, died in Mexico
in great poverty and humiliation. The same fate befell the usurping
dean," Miguel Ortiz de Covarrubias. The cantor Figueroa was sentenced
to degradation, and to be delivered to the secular powers, "which was
afterward commuted, for valid reasons, to perpetual banishment to the
Marianas Islands, where he ended his days in a thousand miseries." The
bishop of Cagayan died so suddenly that he could not be confessed or
absolved. The Jesuit Ortega died at sea, while en route to Madrid
to complain of Pardo; and although he received the viaticum, his
mind was so occupied, first and last, with accusations against the
archbishop, that he scandalized all the people in the ship. He died
practically an excommunicate, not having rendered his accounts for
the executorship to the archbishop, and having been absolved only by
"the usurping Dean, who had no jurisdiction." "The two soldiers who
carried out the father provincial died suddenly," being stabbed to
death, one by an infidel Chinese, the other on leaving the house of
his mistress. A man who wounded the provisor--in trying to murder him;
his name was Manuel Ortafan, and his wife had brought suit against him
for divorce, before the ecclesiastical tribunal