now I have felt much aggrieved by the injustice done me by the Audiencia.  I have sent a complaint thereof to your Majesty, and do not know why the testimony I sent has not yet arrived there.  I had then and still have reason for complaining that the Audiencia usurped my jurisdiction and discussed proceedings which properly belong to me, but in which they have forestalled me.  A citizen of this city left a piece of land whereon was built a hospital and church for the poor.  Although this was ecclesiastical property, they deprived me of judgment in this case, and retained it in their own body.  At another time, the Indians had dared to take a friar from his convent, and they dragged him to the place where I was.  I commenced to try the case, and gave a verdict against the Indians, as it was doubly sacrilegious to take the friar from his convent, and to place hands on an ecclesiastic.  This case came to the Audiencia by way of appeal, and it still remains there, with the records.  A beneficed priest, who was performing the duties of his office, was refused its dues by the encomendero, and came to me for justice.  After I had ordered the encomendero to make the payment, he appealed to the Audiencia, and they retained the suit there, claiming that the property given to beneficiaries in this land is secular.  As I am poor, and have little power, these injuries and similar ones have not been heard of in Spain.  I have suffered them and have kept silence, in order to avoid scandal; but for having resisted in but two cases, in which I was obliged to defend the right of my jurisdiction, in order to comply with the duties of my office, they made a damaging report of me to your Majesty.  They say that I would not permit a report to be made, and took the records of the suit from the notary, so that they could not be dealt with.  In order that your Majesty may see the difference between what I here declare (which is the actual truth), and what they wrote to your Majesty, accusing me of resisting in toto the commands of the Audiencia in regard to the cases of fuerca (which was glaringly false testimony against me), I have decided—­although everything touching the Audiencia is now settled, since your Majesty has commanded it to be suppressed—­to answer the account which they gave your Majesty about the places and the cases of fuerca.  Although I am sure that my cause has been justified before God and those men who know what has happened, I do it to satisfy your Majesty, to whom I owe all obedience and subjection as to my king and lord.  I am even bound to explain my conduct; because, by the grace of God, your Majesty has no one in this kingdom who serves you with greater love and zeal.  I claim no payment nor temporal interest whatever, because this I neither desire nor demand; but I do only my duty, and that I do with all my might.  I could send your Majesty good and sufficient proofs of everything which I have said here; for I certify, in all truth, that everyone to whom I have shown these decrees has crossed himself in surprise that there should be a person or persons who would dare to make such malicious reports to your Majesty.  It suffices me to say that, if credit be not given me, not much time will pass before this truth will be revealed, beyond all possibility of hiding.