Accordingly, what I promised to prove is well established; for the complaints were so long in arriving, and the redress in returning, that he who awaited them was already dead.
In the third place, it is essential that he should not be excessively grasping; and that your Majesty should give him such expectations, if he conducts himself well, that his profit will rest more on them than in what the government is worth to him.

He should be of mature age and great experience in handling the affairs of the commonwealth, such as some knights possess who hold offices of corregidor on the coasts of Espana, and who govern in peace and war, as they never lack exercise for these abilities on the coasts.

For if they were only required to be expert in war, the country would be in ruins before they became capable of governing it--as, for our sins, we have seen in past years.

They should not come burdened with debts, which are demoralizing in a thousand ways.

Notwithstanding that your Majesty has issued decrees which prohibit them from giving offices of profit to members of their households, rather than to the worthy persons of the kingdom, these decrees are the least complied with; nor is there any one who dares to interfere in this.