heard and hear every day increasing and innumerable evil acts,
evil in the highest degree. During the time since I came here, which
is already a considerable period, I have seen nothing good in him
which would lead me, on any account or in any manner, to have any
consideration for him. If your Majesty were pleased to desire to know
particular instances, I am certain that there has been and is being
sent to the royal Council of the Indias so much concerning him that
the Council could easily inform your Majesty of matters concerning
this wretched man; and I shall only relate two or three things, which
everyone knows. The first matter (of which your Majesty must certainly
have information) is, that this man married a woman between whom and
himself there were two obstacles--in the first place, consanguinity;
and, in the second place, relation by marriage. In her case there was
still another obstacle, in that she had taken the vows in a religious
order. Although there were so many and so impassable obstacles, they
procured a dispensation in this [_MS. torn_] so that Don Francisco
might marry her. [I tell your Majesty of this] for love of the common
welfare, and so that he might not by his licentiousness destroy this
commonwealth, which is enslaved, more so than any other in the world
or even than any person, so much are all men subjected to the good
or ill will of the governor--not only the principal persons, but all
others. And further, Don Francisco would have it that this should be
considered sufficient cause for giving so many dispensations, and
in matters so difficult--namely his own unbridled incontinence and
lust--rather than put a check to his vileness. God has permitted this
blindness so senseless in a man, so that we may see in Don Francisco
that, when God takes His hand from a man, neither his honor, nor his
word, nor the fear of God, nor of your Majesty, nor the fact that
he is placed in so public an office and is the minister of such a
king as your Majesty, is sufficient to check him. If the chains and
bonds of matrimony had detained him, the dispensation and past evil
acts might be endured; but according to the report, although these
are not matters which I can examine into, he is still continuing in
these vile acts of his, as a man without God, law, or king.

Another instance: an affair characterized by covetousness, wrongs, and
injustice, which are being perpetrated before the sight of God and all
the world.