And he may be certain that if their Highnesses do this, their estate and greatness will be multiplied to them in an incredible degree.

And it must not appear to him that forty thousand pesos in gold is more than a representation of it; because they might have had a much greater quantity if Satan had not hindered it by impeding my design; for, when I was taken away from the Indies, I was prepared to give them a sum of gold incomparable to forty thousand pesos.

I make oath, and this may be for thee alone, that the damage to me in the matter of the concessions their Highnesses have made to me, amounts to ten millions each year, and never can be made good.

You see what will be, or is, the injury to their Highnesses in what belongs to them, and they do not perceive it.

I write at their disposal and will strive to start yonder.