"It is our desire that, in the presentations that shall be made for
dignidades, canonries and prebends in the cathedral churches of the
Yndias, lettered men be preferred to those who are not, and those who
shall have served in cathedral churches of these same kingdoms and
who shall have had most experience in the choir and divine worship,
to those who shall not have served in cathedral churches.

"At least in the districts where it can be conveniently done, a
graduate jurist in general study shall be presented for a doctoral
canonicate, and another lettered theological graduate in general study
for another magistral canonicate, who shall have the pulpit with the
obligations that doctoral and magistral canons have in these kingdoms.

"Another lettered theologue approved by general study shall be
presented to read the lesson of the holy scriptures, and another
lettered jurist theologue for the canonicate of penitence, in
accordance with the established decrees of the holy council of
Trent. The said four canonries shall be of the number of those of
the erection of the Church.

"We will and order that all the benefices, whether sinecures or
curacies, secular and regular, and the ecclesiastical offices that
become vacant, or that, as they are new, must be filled, throughout
the realm of the Yndias, in whatever diocese it may be, besides those
that are provided in the cathedral churches, as stated above, shall,
in order that they may be filled with less delay, and that our royal
patronage may be preserved in them, be filled in the following manner:

"When a benefice (whether a sinecure or a curacy), or the