 Only after Las Casas had left did the Hieronymites begin to congregate Indians into towns similar to what Las Casas had wanted.When he arrived in Spain, his former protector, regent and Cardinal Ximenez Cisneros, was ill and had become tired of Las Casas's tenacity.Las Casas resolved to meet instead with the young king Charles I. Ximenez died on November 8, and the young King arrived in Valladolid on November 25, 1517.