Fourteenth:  The immediate occupation of China will forestall the danger that the French and English, and other heretics and northern nations, will discover and navigate that strait which certainly lies opposite those regions—­that of Labrador, [48] as those peoples say.

These are, in brief, the many evils which should be averted, and some (not to speak of many others) of the numerous benefits—­which it would take long to enumerate in writing, and cannot even be imagined—­which would result if his Majesty should choose to put his hand to so great an undertaking; and may God our Lord grant him the grace and favor to proceed with it.

Doctor Santiago de Vera
The Bishop of the Filipinas
The licentiate Melchor Davalos
The licentiate Pedro de Rojas
The licentiate Ayala
The Archdeacon of Manila
Antonio Sedeno, rector
Alonso Sanchez
Fray Diego Alvarez, provincial
Hernan Suarez
Fray Juan de Plasencia, custodian of the order of St. Francis
Fray Vicente Valero, guardian
Fray Alonso de Castro
Raymundo
Fray Pedro de Memdieta
Fray Juan de Quinones
The canon Don Juan de Armendariz
The canon Luis de Barruelo
The mariscal Graviel de Ribera
The accountant Andres Cauchela
Juan Baptista Roman
Don Francisco de Poca y Guevara
Pedro de Chaves
Diego de Castillo
Juan de Argumedo
Don Juan Ronquillo del Castillo
Juan de Moron
Ballesteros de Saavedra
Don Antonio Jufre Carrillo
Andres de Villanueva
Luis de Bivanco
Agustin de Arceo
Hernando Munoz de Poyatos
Bernardo de Vergara
Gaspar de Acebo
Juan Pacheco Maldonado
Gomez de Machuca
Francisco Mercado de Andrada
Francisco Rodriguez
Gaspar Osorio de Moya
Don Bartolome de Sotomayor
Diego de Camudio
Bernardino de Avila
Luis Velez Cherino
Pedro Martin
Francisco Garcia
Melchor de Torres
Christoval Munoz
Diego Fernandez Vitoria
Alonso Beltran, Secretary

[On the back of the Sevilla copy are written, in the same hand as are the marginal notes, various memoranda, apparently as references for the use of the council.  On the left-hand side appear the following: 

“1:  There was an assembly of all the estates, who resolved to send a person to his Majesty; and all appointed Father Alonso Sanchez; August [sic; but should be April] 19, in the year 86. 2:  On the fifth of May, 86, the royal Audiencia of Manila appointed Father Alonso Sanchez as envoy. 3:  On the twentieth of June, 86, the bishop and cathedral of the city of Manila appointed the same. 4:  On the sixteenth of April, 86, the bishop and the superiors of the religious appointed the same. 5:  On the 25th of June, 86, the judiciary, magistracy, and cabildo of Manila appointed the same. 6:  On the twenty-eighth of May, the master-of-camp and the captains of the Filipinas Islands appointed the same.”