[fo. 33r.] 

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the audiencia / 

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                                 The King 

President and oidores of our / 

audiencia and chancilleria of the / 

Española island.  I saw two letters of yours of / 

eighteenth of July and eight of September / 

of  last year that you wrote to the empress / 

and Queen my very dear and very/ 

loved woman and in this one they will be / 

responded to / 

After the copy was seen of one of the / 

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ordinances for this audiencia that we ordered/ 

to be issued about the viewing and deciding of the trials / 

when any of you is absent / 

from this said audiencia, and what you say that / 

many times it has happened and occurs / 

at present that only the president and an oidor / 

reside in it due to the death or absence of the / 

others, and that since you the president,  in / 

criminal trials of death or mutilation / 

of a limb, do not interfere in deciding them, / 

only you the licenciado Zuazo remain, and / 

according to the ordinances of this said audiencia / 

you cannot finish the criminal trials / 

in the degree of appeal, and that for / 

this reason there are currently two trials / 

stalled for which it would be necessary to wait / 

until there were enough oidores and that, since it is / 

about uprisings of blacks, it requires / 

soon much punishment, you appointed a lawyer / 

to determine them jointly with you the said licenciado Zuazo / 

due to the delay,  and it was requested that I  / 

instruct to order you what to do when / 

something else of this quality occurs.  As to the past  / 

since you did it for the reasons that you say, I deem it/ 

good.  And for the future, it goes with this my cedula / 

so that it is done in the way you think. 

Also I have seen what you wrote to me / 

in three chapters of your letters regarding the / 

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humiliations you say were done by the bishop of San / 

Juan to the audit judge that you sent to the / 

said island and to other subjects of ours under condition / 

of inquisitor, and the mandate by which / 

he ordered for doctor Carrera to be incarcerated, and since / 

I want to order a review of the powers that / 

the said bishop has for the aforementioned, you / 

must manage to get a copy of those and must / 

send it to me, and in the meantime here we will/ 

order to decide what may be convenient on the things / 

the bishop has done. / 

You say that, because you received news that  / 

marshal don Diego de Almagro our governor / 

of the province of Toledo had passed away / 

and that the Indians of the Cozco [sic] province / 

had revolted and that the governor of / 

that province and that of the Toledo one had / 

great need for help by troops, you sent / 

to the said provinces Diego de Fuenmayor, / 

brother of yours the president with people / 

and horses, and though here we do not  consider / 

the news of the passing of the said marshal as / 

certain, it has seemed to me that it was a good decision the one you did / 

of sending him off and I consider it a service.  / 

Always be careful to send me information in all / 

the ships about the news that may exist from those / 

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provinces and from  the others subjected to this / 

audiencia.  / 

r I have been informed that some of the indians / 

and blacks that you capture for crimes and [you] / 

condemn to death appeal at these kingdoms.  / 

And because due to the delay some inconveniences / 

may occur and so on, we have / 

agreed that you must not grant them the appeal, but / 

judge on it as court of second instance as / 

you will see per the cedula that goes with this one.  You / 

must thus comply with it from here on. In Valladolid,  on / 

February third of one thousand and five hundred and thirty / 

and seven.  I the King.  Certified by the Comendador / 

Mayor. Signed by Beltran Carvajal.  Bernal Velazquez.  

                          The King 

Licenciado Fuentmaior, president of our audiencia y chancilleria / 

of the Española island, I saw your letter of July 13th of past year / 

1536 that you wrote to the empress and queen my very dear / 

and beloved woman, in which you mention the passing away of doctor / 

Infante, and the need there is to provide with oidores that / 

audiencia, and the quality your say you are.  And I take into account / 

the care you have in what pertains to your responsibility and post / 

and in notifying me of the things that are convenient to our service / 

and I charge and order you to continue thus, being / 

sure that I will remember your services, and because in the general/ 

letter you are responded to in length to what you have written, I refer [you] / 

to it.  In Valladolid, February 3rd of 1536.  I the king.  Certified  and signed / 

by the above said ones. /