 These ordinances directed that Pánfilo de Narváez, held a prisoner in Veracruz by Cortés, should be released, and that an inspector should be sent to New Spain to investigate the conduct of the conqueror, and to render justice to the governor of Cuba, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, whose orders Cortés had refused to obey.At this time Emperor Charles V was attending to affairs in Germany.Spain was being governed by a regency headed by Adrian of Utrecht (later Pope Adrian VI).