As for the other two causes similar to the above, of which I have also informed your Majesty, I remitted that of Captain Don Fernando Bezerra to Licentiate Legaspi; for certain persons, on seeing justice done in this land, say that it is not justice, but only passion, while others say that it is cruelty.

Accordingly he concluded and judged it, and freed him.

For the same reason, I committed to him the appeal to the Audiencia in the other cause of Don Joan de la Vega.

While the latter, on my conscience, was more than guilty enough to suffer decapitation (to which I sentenced him), the same auditors so managed the cause that at last they did the same thing; they set him free, and condemned Captain Lucas de Manozca, formerly alcalde-in-ordinary of this city--who aided me in this cause and others to the service of your Majesty--to the sum of five hundred pesos and other penalties, and caused him to suffer a considerable time in prison, and to spend for other particular objects much time and money.
[_Marginal note_: "You and the Audiencia have already been answered in regard to this matter, as to what must be done.

Now you are ordered to send a copy of these processes and acts--so that, having been examined, the satisfaction that is proper may be obtained--and of the justice that has been administered in like matters." [27] 21st.