The licentiate Geronimo de Salaçar y Salcedo, fiscal of this royal
Audiencia, died two or three months ago. No great loss will result
hereby to the affairs to the royal treasury, since he paid little
attention to them in his office. For the interim before your Majesty
shall appoint a person to fulfil the duties of this position, the
Audiencia has appointed the bachelor Rodrigo Diaz Guiral, a man
of learning, integrity, and responsibility--such a man as might be
desired for this office. My acquaintance with all these qualifications
in him has constrained me to call your Majesty's attention to them,
so that you might be pleased to favor him; for surely, in my opinion,
it would not be possible to find another man more suitable for this
office. He has property of his own, and claims and suits give him no
anxiety. Accordingly, I have made special efforts to induce him to
accept the position; for it is necessary to seek persons like him for
such offices. Since he has had so much experience with the business
of this office, I have no doubt that he will give a good account of
himself. [_Marginal note_: "Referred to the Council."]

The commanders of the galleys which your Majesty has in Hespaña,
Italia, Yndias, and other regions appoint for the said galleys
a chief chaplain and chaplains. After these are approved and have
obtained a license from the ordinary to carry on their ministries, the
archbishops and their vicars and the bishops do not trouble themselves
about the chaplains. This is a settled and recognized custom, so
that no one pays any attention to it except the archbishop of this
city, because there is nothing with which he does not meddle. He
has handed in a document, maintaining that this is not a concern
of your Majesty's but belongs to him, and that he has the right to
nominate and approve the chaplains to these positions if he desires,
or to decline to approve them. Accordingly, after I had nominated