that there was now much to fear, and that he was not to find a justifiable opportunity, [for] he caught at that word, and said that I had intended to give him the lie, as if transgressions in thought were to be fought over—­the more so, Sire, as I did not speak another word to him; for if I had spoken another word, I am not the man who would deny that to your Majesty or any one else.  On account of that, the governor determined to make me the object of a lawsuit, and received his witnesses.  To them he did not fail to tell what had happened, but not the words that I had spoken.  When some wished to tell more, it is said that he insulted and threatened them.  However, he did not do that with Licentiate Legaspi and Don Juan de Valderrama, the auditor and fiscal, whom he also received as witnesses, and whom I warned beforehand to give witness of everything that had passed; still, they said no more than what the governor wished, by which I am insulted, ashamed, and surprised beyond manner.  Notwithstanding their great friendship with him, and that they know how to gratify him and be gratified by him (of which would to God there were not so much to murmur at in the community, because of the great aid they render him in ruining it), still I am consoled, and I praise God for everything.  With this and, as has been declared publicly, with the advice of an advocate, to whom he gave an appointment so that he might be made judge of vagabonds—­and who was, as is said, urged and even persuaded for it, that such action was not to arrest me, but only to intimidate me—­the governor issued a warrant for arrest, and seized me.  This was done while all the Audiencia was in a body, near the chapel where mass was being said, and about to go on general prison inspection, on Palm Saturday—­although he had no sufficient reasons, as I told him so that he should not do it, as well as to the rest of the Audiencia so that they might discuss it.  He sent me to the cabildo quarters, which are in the public prison, where he set over me seven soldiers of the guard and a corporal, with orders not to let me talk with any layman, especially any scrivener, and not to let me have paper and ink to write.  Besides that guard, he set other soldiers in the street, so that I might not escape through the windows, as I believe.  I am also told that the corporal had orders to kill me if I tried to escape, although I do not know what truth there is in that statement.  But none of the orders given were more than oral, for the governor did not want them set on the records.  Imprisoned in the above manner—­on Palm Saturday, when [even] highwaymen are set free—­he kept me prisoner during all of Holy Week and Easter, and two whole months—­with the greatest scandal that, as I have heard, this community has ever had—­until many religious, servants of God, and the archbishop, went to him to persuade him, and to undeceive him as to the gravity of the act that he had committed.  But they obtained no beneficial result from it; on the contrary, considering