president and auditors] declared that they would revoke,
and they did revoke, the said grant with everything
therein contained; and that they would declare it,
and they did declare it, to be null and of no force
and effect. And they declared that they would
notify, and they did notify, each and every magistrate
of his Majesty, that each one of them, in his jurisdiction,
in so far as may concern him, shall not consent to
the use of the said monopolies, or of any one of them,
on the part of either the said seminary or of any other
person with a lease-title therefrom, or in any other
manner, who may employ and make use of the said grant;
but on the contrary they shall proceed to the punishment
of such, who shall be in their jurisdiction, as against
persons making use of a title and right not pertaining
to them. And as for the said edifice and its
demolition, it shall be entrusted to the captain-general,
so that he, when he has examined it, and found that
it is within the said three hundred paces about the
walls, shall have it demolished and razed, until it
be put in the state in which the said Plaza de Armas
had been before, and at the time when the said edifice
was commenced, in such manner that the purpose of
the command of his Majesty in the said royal decree
shall be complied with. A royal decree in conformity
with this act shall be despatched, and shall be cried
publicly in the customary districts and places, so
that knowledge thereof may come to all. And, by
this their act, they decree and command accordingly,
and have signed their names.
Doctor Don Alvaro de Messa y Lugo
Licentiate Don Juan de Saavedra Valderrama
Licentiate Don Mathias Delgado y Flores
Before me:
Pedro Alvarez
Don Phelipe, by the grace of God king of Castilla,
of Leon, of Aragon, of the two Cicilias, of Hierusalem,
of Portugal, of Navarra, of Granada, of Toledo, of
Valencia, of Galicia, of Mayorca, of Sevilla, of Cerdena,
of Cordova, of Corcega, of Murcia, of Jaen, of the
Algarves, of Algeciras, of Gibraltar, and of the Canaria
Islands, and of the Eastern and Western Yndias, islands
and mainland, of the Ocean Sea; Archduke of Austria,
Duke of Borgona, of Bramante, and Milan; Count of
Arpspug [i.e., Hapsburg] and of Flandez, of
Tirol, and of Barcelona; Seignior of Viscaya and of
Molina, etc. [Here the royal decree quotes in
full the foregoing act of the royal Audiencia beginning:
“In consideration of the fact that Don Alonso
Faxardo de Tenca,” etc., down to “but
likewise is prohibited by equity and law.”]