In consequence of the injustice of the former court of audience, his majesty was pleased to suppress it, and to cancel all its grants, and to appoint a new one consisting of wise and upright men.  Of this new tribunal, Don Sebastian Ramirez, bishop of St Domingo was president, and the oydors or judges were the licentiates Maldonado de Salamanca, Vaco de Quiroga y Madrigal, afterwards bishop of Mechoacan, Zaynos de Toro, and Solomon de Madrid.  On commencing their sittings, such crowds of complainants of all descriptions, settlers, agents, and native chiefs from every city, town, and district of New Spain made application for redress against the partiality and oppression of the former court, that the members were quite astonished.  The demands made by the agents of Cortes for what had been unjustly taken from him, amounted to above 200,000 crowns.  As Nuno de Guzman was absent, the whole blame was laid upon him by the other members of the former tribunal, who alleged that they were compelled to act according to his orders.  He was accordingly summoned to appear, which he did not think proper to do, and it was judged proper to refer the whole affair for the present to the supreme court in Spain.  Accordingly, one Torre, a licentiate, was sent with full powers from Spain to Xalisco, having orders to transmit Guzman to Mexico, and to commit him to prison.  Torre was also commissioned to indemnify us for the fines which had been imposed on us respecting the affair of Narvaez.

The properties of Delgadillo and Martienzo, were sold to pay the damages of those who had gained causes against them, and their persons imprisoned for the deficiency.  A brother of Delgadillo, who was alcalde-major in Oaxaca, and another who was alcalde among the Zapotecas, were fined and imprisoned for the same reason, and died in jail.  Delgadillo and Martienzo returned afterwards to Spain in poverty, where they soon died.  The new judges were wise and just, regulating their conduct entirely according to the will of God and the king, and shewing a laudable zeal for the protection and conversion of the Indians.  They prohibited all branding of the natives for slaves, and made many other excellent regulations.  In about four years, Solomon and Zaynos, two of the judges, being old and wealthy, petitioned for leave to retire.  The president also was ordered to repair to Europe, to give an account of the affairs of New Spain.  He was then bishop of St Domingo, having been formerly inquisitor in Seville.  After his return to Spain, he was advanced successively to the bishopricks of Toro, Leon, and Cuenca, with astonishing rapidity, and was also made president of the royal chancery in Valladolid.  The good conduct of the oydor Maldonado was rewarded by the government of Guatimala, Honduras, and Veragua, and the title of adelantado or lieutenant governor of Yucutan.  The other judge, Quiroga de Madrigal, obtained the bishoprick of Mechoacan.  Such were the rewards of these just judges!