_Jesus_
Inasmuch as your Lordship wrote to me at San Francisco del Monte that
the encomenderos were urgently seeking from you permission to make
collections from their encomiendas, I despatched to you from that
place an answer to the letter which your Lordship wrote to me after
having received my statement and that of the other theologians of
the bishopric who think carefully about this matter. I had therein
represented to your Lordship some of the difficulties which might
result from carrying into execution some of the plans proposed in the
aforesaid statement. In the reply, I solved these difficulties; and
have since been waiting to learn what your Lordship has communicated
to the encomenderos regarding collections in the encomiendas which
are without religious instruction. Since I must inform all confessors
who are outside the city how they are to deal in the confessional
with the aforesaid encomenderos, I pray your Lordship to favor me by
advising me of your transactions with these encomenderos, so that
we may all be of one mind, express ourselves in harmony, and avoid
dissensions among ourselves, which are wont to be the cause of many
evils. It is necessary that your Lordship should inform me promptly;
for messages must be sent to some districts remote from here, and,
if I do not write at once, I shall be unable to send word to the
confessors in time. May God guard your Lordship. From this house,
on Ash Wednesday of the year 91.
_The Bishop_