Since you say that the Order of St. Augustine has taken in its charge with great zeal to facilitate and execute all which has been and is necessary to accomplish in my royal service--and especially Fray Alonzo de Baraona, the provincial, and the definitors have done so--it will be very desirable that you should therefore confer with them, and likewise with the provincial and definitors of the discalced [Augustinians], and give them to understand my gratitude to them. You will especially express to them the pleasure which I have experienced in learning their good reputation for procedure, religion, and prudence, and suggest that they should continue this, as I trust they will; and say that I shall always remember, both in general their order in those islands, and themselves individually, as they shall see by the results. And you shall take care to encourage them to the preaching of the gospel, and the benefit and enrichment of souls, so that the public welfare shall not suffer for lack thereof; for it is my intention to aid them so far as possible; and the affairs of those islands, although they lie so far distant from my court, are very near to my thoughts. I trust through our Lord that, He lending you His divine favor, and you meriting it by your good government, you may put all in such good order that it will be preserved and advanced, and the enemy shall lose more. There are none of your letters which have not been answered, and the same may be said of those from the Audiencia, the officials of my royal estate, and other officers. 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: