he opened an official inquiry, in order to investigate the offense,
and to punish it according to law, "as the said father is a parish
priest and minister for souls in the said mission of Dilao, and the
said offense is dependent on the visit which his said Excellency is
making on him as such minister, inasmuch as he is, in that regard,
under his Lordship's jurisdiction and subject to him...."

The investigation ended on June 26 of the said year. In it the
depositions were taken of Licentiate Juan de Arguijo, ecclesiastical
fiscal of the archbishop; Don Alonso García de León, canon; Licentiate
Jerónimo Rodriguez Luján, presbyter; Miguel Calderón, presbyter; and
Alférez Francisco del Castillo, chief constable of the archbishop. The
archbishop ordered that the father minister of Dilao be arrested,
"and placed as a prisoner in one of the convents--that of St. Dominic,
or St. Augustine, or the Society of Jesus, or St. Nicolas of the
Recollects of this city--the one which the said father should
select. That convent the archbishop assigns to him as a prison and
place of confinement; and he is ordered not to break it under penalty
of greater excommunication, _latæ senteniæ ipso facto incurrenda_, and
suspension from active and passive vote for three years. And in order
that the said imprisonment might be effective, and not be hindered
by the religious of the said order, the royal aid shall be petitioned
through this royal Audiencia, to whom it rightly belongs to give that
aid, in order that they may fulfil the decrees of the holy council of
Trent, and a royal decree given for this purpose, under date of San
Lorenzo, November fourteen, six hundred and three, directed to this
royal Audiencia, and another royal decree of the same date directed
to the archbishop of these islands, in which they are ordered to make
effectual the said visit, as such is advisable for the relief of the
consciences of his Majesty and of the said archbishop...."