to Him for your Majesty. It only remains for your
Majesty to protect and favor this charity, both by granting it some
reward, as an aid to its support and expense; and by ordering that
there be professed nuns in it, as is the desire of this community--and
especially that the superior of this seminary be one. For this purpose
it would be highly desirable for your Majesty to have sent from Nueva
Espana three or four women of the sanctity, virtue, and experience
requisite. They are necessary to begin so heroic and important a
work, and to increase and further perfect it. By this God will be
very well served, your Majesty rewarded by His Divine Majesty, and
this community favored, consoled, and increased in spiritual blessings.

_That the posts on ships which ply hither be given to men of this
country_

It is important to appoint men of this country, well qualified and
sufficient for it, to the post of captain and other posts in the ships
plying to this country; for being inhabitants of the country, and men
who have to return and live in it, they will endeavor to procure its
welfare, and will fear to commit the wrong of casting goods overboard,
which is so injurious to this community. And especially is this
injurious to its poor, who suffer all the greatest hardships and
losses, as they cannot send their goods as can others who are more
powerful and perhaps less deserving. The latter load their goods in
a part of the ship which is safe from these risks; and it usually
happens that the rich profit from the good sale that they are wont
to have of the goods they send, while the poor are losers, because
their goods are not loaded or are cast overboard. If the captain is
not a man of much conscience, and only desires his own enrichment,
and not the welfare of the country, and again, does not have to live
here, but can return; and if he should commit any wrongs for any cause,
and for advantage to his own goods, it would be in vain to go to Nueva
Espana to beg satisfaction. If he were an inhabitant of this country,
he would fear to do wrong, in that he might not pay the penalty
afterward. Moreover, as men who do not live in this community have to
be given an opportunity of gain if they are to accept these offices,
it is better for the inhabitants of this country to make the profit,
for they will take the offices very willingly without any salary,
for the honor of the office and the advantage to their goods--both
in having a p