I am persuaded that, if his wishes and inclinations were not so biased and so ready not to become a good associate, even in what is just, many of the things above mentioned and that I could mention would be avoided.

For that and complete harmony, it would be of great importance if all the auditors were not new, as they are.

They make more trouble than even arises from the ignorance of their duties, since that does not prevent them from presuming that they know everything.

For lack of another and better remedy--and one from which no trouble would arise--it would not be bad for those who come here to fill such places to be started [in their duties] and to be taught methods and usages by the auditors of Mexico, at least during the time while they are detained there; for it is a pity to see their deficiencies in this regard, and even more the qualifications that I have mentioned in this and other letters.

The eye that was left to us in this Audiencia, whereby we could see and direct ourselves to the light, God chose to take from us, by the death of Andres de Alcaraz.