This graduate, after some years of confinement, took it into his head that he was sane and in his full senses, and under this impression wrote to the Archbishop, entreating him earnestly, and in very correct language, to have him released from the misery in which he was living; for by God's mercy he had now recovered his lost reason, though his relations, in order to enjoy his property, kept him there, and, in spite of the truth, would make him out to be mad until his dying day. The Archbishop, moved by repeated sensible, well-written letters, directed one of his chaplains to make inquiry of the madhouse as to the truth of the licentiate's statements, and to have an interview with the madman himself, and, if it should appear that he was in his senses, to take him out and restore him to liberty.
Este tal graduado, al cabo de algunos años de recogimiento, se dio a entender que estaba cuerdo y en su entero juicio, y con esta imaginación escribió al arzobispo, suplicándole encarecidamente y con muy concertadas razones le mandase sacar de aquella miseria en que vivía, pues por la misericordia de Dios había ya cobrado el juicio perdido; pero que sus parientes, por gozar de la parte de su hacienda, le tenían allí, y, a pesar de la verdad, querían que fuese loco hasta la muerte. »El arzobispo, persuadido de muchos billetes concertados y discretos, mandó a un capellán suyo se informase del retor de la casa si era verdad lo que aquel licenciado le escribía, y que asimesmo hablase con el loco, y que si le pareciese que tenía juicio, le sacase y pusiese en libertad.