Madrid, December 13, 1620.
_I The King_ By command of the king, our lord: _Pedro de Ledesma_ Memorial, y Relacion para sv Magestad By, Hernando de los Rios Coronel.

Madrid: Fernando Correa, 1621.
_Source_: This is translated and synopsized from the copy of the original printed work owned by the Library of Congress.
_Translation_: The translation and synopsis are made by Robert W.Haight and James A.Robertson.
_Memorial_, _And Relation_ _For His Majesty, of the Procurator-General of the_ Filipinas, of what it is advisable to reform, and of the wealth contained in them, and in the Islands of Maluco.
In the year 1621.
_Madrid_ By _the widow of Fernando Correa_.
Memorial and Relation of the Filipinas Sire: I, Hernando de los Rios Coronel; an ordained priest, and procurator-general of the Filipinas Islands, Maluco, and all that archipelago, declared that, about thirty-two years ago or more, I went to the Filipinas Islands, where I lived a considerable time in the military habit and exercise, and as a citizen of the city of Manila, but with greater desires than strength to serve your Majesty, and endeavoring to give indications of this to all the inhabitants of that kingdom.

On that account, they charged me with, and loaded upon my shoulders, in the year 1605, the weight of their cares and troubles.

I came to this court, where I prostrated myself many times before the royal feet of his Majesty who is in heaven, and gave him an account of those things.

I returned to that kingdom in the year 1610, to give account there of myself, and of my mission, undergoing many hardships and perils.