come to reside in this city because of the presence of the enemy.  Besides, that inspection did not pertain to me, since I was neither the oldest nor the most recent auditor.  Notwithstanding that the Audiencia resisted, saying that it was not advisable to make that visit then, he tried to have it done by his appointment alone, and without the concurrence of the Audiencia, having attempted to do that last year as well as at the present time.  In order to constrain and annoy me more, he ordered me to go out in Holy Week, notwithstanding that I replied to him that I would go (although it did not pertain to me) if the Audiencia concurred in it, but that without that concurrence I could not go.  In consequence, it appears that the governor desisted for the time, but did not abandon his project; on the contrary, he was more set on it.  When the Christmas season came, the time for the distribution of offices, in accordance with your Majesty’s ordinances, that of probate judge fell to me in my turn.  But this so annoyed him that he tried to avoid giving it, withholding the commission signed by the entire Audiencia, for more than two months, I believe, with a certain scandal to the city; for litigants did not know to what judge they could have recourse, as my predecessor’s time had expired.  After he had delivered me the commission, when I commenced to exercise the office—­with no greater pleasure than that of serving your Majesty, although others solicit those offices—­the death of Licentiate Andres de Alcaraz happened, without his leaving a will.  As judge, I set about collecting his property with much diligence, involving considerable hardship.  That caused me certain fevers, for as he died in the country outside this city in a garden his property was in great peril.  Of this I gave your Majesty an account after the property was collected and placed in order, with the precautions that I had taken—­by which, notwithstanding the suits that had succeeded, I would continue to retain and reserve the property in case that your Majesty were pleased to send [some one to take] the said auditor’s inspection or residencia.  In conformity with that I had sent documents both to the probate court of Mexico and to the House of Trade at Sevilla, so that the property that the said auditor possessed there might be collected, and that your Majesty might be advised.  Finally, I continuing in my office and the governor in his purpose—­which was stimulated by his inability to reduce me to what I can morally believe, besides the public rumor and report—­and he being most desirous of taking from me my office of probate judge, especially after the property had been entered in the accounts of the probate court; and I had begun the administration of the property of Licentiate Andres de Alcaraz:  for certain purposes, which I do not dare to state, although they are reported, for I do not dare believe them, still by this and by many other reasons, and more because he had seized certain of the letters