understood in this city regarding the exportation, I am assured by several persons that bad news is being spread of the unhappiness in which these families live, their disgust with the country where there is nothing but hard labor and want, in place of the happiness and riches they had been promised by the English, and what is worse, that they themselves (without stating the reason) had assassinated the said Clergyman who had accompanied them. This is all I can tell you at present, until I have a reply for the worse from my Vicar-General of Minorca. In the meantime I take this occasion to congratulate your Majesty upon your new destiny and after my services praying God may grant you long life. BISHOP OF MINORCA. Palma, February 5th, 1771. CHAPTER XIX. A. D. 1771. _The opinion of the Judge, after having examined the different letters from the Bishops and those in authority connected therewith and after making thorough investigation into this matter concerning the granting of the patent and graces asked for by these Priests of the Minorcan families of the English colony of Florida--The Bishop of Cuba for the Council to Dr. Don Pedro Campos and the Rev. Father Bartolome Casanovas, extends to these Priests the title of Parish Priest and Vicar--Also sends a box containing three flasks of Sacred Oil--Hopes soon to be able to send a more extended prorogation of other powers--This grace having been solicited by the King from the Court of Rome--Asks for a more extended report of the number of families and condition of the congregation._