Note 5 — Letters from Juan Cerezo de Salamanca to Felipe IV

This recommendation was thus answered by the king, in a despatch to Corcuera dated Madrid, December 1, 1636: “Inasmuch as it is proper that all the prelates take personal charge of the government of their churches, thus fulfilling their so stringent obligations for that, I have thought it best—notwithstanding that I charge them by a decree of the same date as this that, if they should be absent from their churches, they shall without fail go to reside in them—to order you, as I am doing, to see for your part by repeated urgings that they go to reside at and to serve their churches, in case that any of them should be absent.” This is found in the “Cedulario Indico,” at Madrid—pressmark, “Tomo 39, fol. 228.”