He is quite at variance with the ecclesiastical cabildo, and the prebendaries in particular make many complaints of him; and it would be well worth your consideration that this should be checked. Both they and others demand this from your Majesty, and you will be pleased to grant such relief as is most expedient. May our Lord protect your Catholic person for many years. Manila, July 4, 1605.
[In the margin: “Have the decree for Santo Domingo and Nuebo Rreyno[3] brought, so that it may be examined and the proper decree issued.”]
Don Pedro de Acuña
The licentiate Tellez Almacan
The licentiate Manuel de Madrid y Luna
[Endorsed: “Manila; to his Majesty, 1605. 58. Governor and Audiencia.” “January 15, 1607, examined, and decreed within.”]
[1] The sense is here somewhat incomplete; there may be some omission in the text.
[2] Fuerza: injury committed by an ecclesiastical judge; see Vol. v, p. 292.
[3] Apparently a reference to the organization of “el Nuevo Reino [‘the new kingdom’] de Granada,” afterward known as Nueva (or New) Granada; a name applied in the nineteenth century to the country now known as United States of Colombia. This region was conquered by Gonzalo Jiminez Quesada in 1537, its capital (established August 6, 1538) being Santa Fé de Bogota.