Minutes of a Bull or Bill of Supplication to be presented to the Holy See asking for concession of graces and powers for Catholic residents in Florida--Minorcan families brought priest and monk with them--Wish new privileges and graces granted--In regard to a Cedula from his Majesty, which instructs as to duties on wine--Priests and Monks of Tasco use Municipal monies for their own interests--Advises a change in the office of Treasurer of the Royal Chest--Vessels carry important papers for his Majesty lost--Favors shown to Don Francisco gratifies the people--Letter from Pedro Ibarra to his Majesty says there is not sufficient support for the Garrison--Solicits aid for a poor widow--Soldiers find amber in a fish, for which Menendez exacts a duty--French and English pirates cause much anxiety--A few captured, some imprisoned and ten hanged--Visiting Indian chiefs so impressed with the religious services and processions that they ask for friars to instruct their people--Asks for assistance in building a fort at the mouth of Miguel Moro--Endeavors to find the source of river San Mateo and Lake Miami--A garrison of warlike people--Proposition to establish a Manager of the Inquisition to subjugate and control them--Does not wish to let certain priest and captain--Report of Juan Menendez Marquez--Deplores the decision to reduce the garrison--Advises a return to the policy of Pedro Menendez, his cousin--Desires permission to come to Spain to more fully lay the condition before his Majesty. CHAPTER VII--A. D. 1622-1640 82 Report of Antonio Benavides to his Majesty--The Spanish King instructs the establishment of friendly relations with the English of the Carolinas--Don Francisco Menendez with other officers sent out--Mission fails owing to the English not having yet received instructions from London--Requested the removal of an English fort built on Spanish territory--Refusal--The matter fully laid before his Majesty--Report of Luis De Rojas--A Frigate sent out to assist a fleet in bringing supplies, run down by an enemy, boat stripped and burned, soldiers and crew escape to shore and finally reach the garrison--They collect Indians and soldiers and return--The enemy take to their launches and escape--Forty-seven persons only saved from a Spanish Fleet which had been captured by a Dutch Fleet--Recommends that his Majesty build a fort at the bar of the place called Jega--Report of Luis Ussitinez to his Majesty--The Mandate of the King carried out for prayer to Almighty God for the success of the King’s arms taken up against France--At a meeting of the Board of the City Council of Havana appears a clergyman of the Holy Office of the Inquisition with an Auto from the Señor Comissionado, Don Francisco de las Casas, containing instructions as to certain ceremonies in connection with the Inquisition. CHAPTER VIII--A. D. 1655-1657 96