of the year 1611, all votes concurring in his election with great
good-will; for they saw that he was the one of whom the province
had need for those times. Thereupon, our father Fray Miguel García
performed an action most worthy of his devout heart, namely, to
kneel down before our president, and with tears to resign his office,
confessing himself as unworthy and insufficient for it, while he did
not have the grace or rather the age for it. This he did with so many
tears that his devotion made many others weep. The bishop-elect of
Sugbú, who was present, caused our father visitor to dispense him in
whatever obstruction he had by reason of his age, and to confirm him
in the election. The bishop coöperated, and considered it good that
the province had elected him; and the province itself insisted on it
by universal acclaim. Consequently, our father visitor confirmed our
father provincial Fray Miguel García, first dispensing him for the
impediment of the lack of age, which was but little. That lack was
more than supplied by his excess of prudence.

The definitors elected at this chapter were the reverend fathers:
first, Fray Francisco Bonifacio; second, Fray Juan de Tapia; third,
Fray Vicente de Sepúlveda; and fourth, Fray Estacio Ortíz. The
absolute provincial, father Fray Diego Gutiérrez, received a vote. The
visitors who were elected in this definitorio were father Fray
Bernabé de Villalobos and father Fray Antonio de Porras [22], the
latter being _adito_. [23] All the above in assembly made excellent
regulations, and established for that time very good acts and laws;
and they charged our father provincial with the execution of them,
since on that depended the universal good of all the province.

It was proposed in this chapter, and, in fact, it was so ordered,
for reasons that were very apparent there, that the chapters in the