Note 33 — Chapter X · THE AUDIENCIA AND THE CHURCH: THE ROYAL PATRONAGE

The audiencia exercised intervention in the removal of curates from their parishes.33 As noted, already, these removals were made by the vicepatron upon the recommendation of the prelate concerned. Of course, when the audiencia was governing ad interim it made these removals itself. It also intervened when the vicepatron was present on occasions when he requested the support of the tribunal or failed to act himself. The judicial authority of the audiencia, exercised through its entertainment of appeals from curates who had been removed, will be considered in the next chapter.