They ask this not only for the lands held by his Majesty which are now at peace (where there is much need), but also for the great kingdom of Cochin China, for that of Sian, and for other foreign lands--to which those who lack so great a blessing, since they have no one to show them the way, beseech and call us.

Herein the religious of that province beg of his Majesty that he reward the hardships which they have suffered, and are now suffering, in his service and that of God.
Item: that the said religious shall not go [from Spain], as heretofore, by way of Nueva Espana, inasmuch as the majority remain there, and not a third part of those who have departed for those regions, at the expense of his Majesty, have ever arrived there.

Nor even of those who have come from there [the Philippines] has a single religious returned; because all have remained in Espana, or in the province of Mexico.

This has occasioned no little trouble to those of us who reside there.

From this it follows that the intention of his Majesty is defeated, and the result which is attempted is not attained.