I bear them in mind and will try to act in concert with them by this same path, God helping.

May His Divine Majesty, as He is able, bring it to pass so that they may know Him as their God, and your Majesty for their as well as our king.
[_Marginal note_: "Ecclesiastical."] 41st.

Thanks to our Lord, this country is peaceful and prosperous in other things.

The native vassals are orderly and full of courage, and those who were living in the forests have been reduced to their settlements and missions, being very confident that their possessions will not be taken from them, and that no repartimiento or [_MS.

holed_: edict ?] will be made among them, or that any other service will force them to flee or to be made slaves, in order to make them render service, as has happened to innumerable of these poor wretches; for they hope that what I have done hitherto to relieve them from so many burdens will be continued.