 These prison visits were a grave matter for the judges.At the beginning of the reign of King Charles III (1759), Echávarri, being then president of the Audiencia, asked to be relieved of the duty because he was much occupied with the other duties of acting viceroy and captain general of the colony.There was a precedent for this; Audiencia President Pedro Malo de Villavicencio had been excused in 1739 when he temporarily succeeded Viceroy Pedro de Castro y Figueroa.