Note 3 — Letters from Tavora to Felipe IV

The religious orders are at peace, and are attending to the welfare of the natives and your Majesty’s service. Three of them held chapter-meetings this year, and all quietly. That of St. Francis, and that of the Augustinian Recollects were exemplary, and they made their elections immediately. The calced Augustinians also made their elections—but not so quickly that we could avoid sending to them to remind them not to allow the disturbances of other times to occur in their chapter—by having made them beforehand through their devotion to the outgoing provincial, who managed the succession for another as worthy as he.3 May God grant that the elections be canonical.