For the favor that your Majesty granted him in this--both to him and to me--I kiss your royal feet with the humility and acknowledgment that is fitting.
It seems to me that with the commission borne by the above-mentioned, it will be very well if, during his execution of it, he be relieved somewhat of the many onerous duties of the office of factor; and for that purpose I shall endeavor to give him the aid and leisure that should appear necessary.

If the treasurer--who has not yet arrived and whom I do not know--is such as I believe and have proved the factor to be, I shall have no need of carrying memoranda in my pocket of what is paid into the royal treasury, as I have done sometimes, even constraining this present treasurer so that he might ordain that those warrants for whose despatch and payment he did not have my decrees should not be honored.

Consequently, I would not be sorry to see here two or three men for the accountancy of this treasury and for that of Terrenate; but, although the governors are accustomed to make that appointment, I cannot find many to choose here.
[_Marginal note_: "It is well.

With the arrival of the treasurer and that of the treasury accountant, he is relieved of his anxiety about the matter of accounts."] 7th.

I have equalized the pay of the captains, officers, and soldiers here and at Terrenate, by increasing that of some and diminishing that of others, as your Majesty has ordered.