Item:  The governor should not consent to Japanese living in that country, as they are a great trouble and danger to the country, and the city is continually in danger from them.

Item:  The Chinese should be very carefully restricted, so that no greater number of them than your Majesty has ordered be [allowed to remain there]; for they are permitted [to enter the country] without any exercise of caution, and we know by experience what this costs.

Item:  Your Majesty should command the governor finally to reduce the island of Mindanao to obedience to your Majesty; for those islands are so infested that they hinder the carrying of reenforcements to Maluco.  And as they are in league with the Dutch, we have a perfect right to make war upon them and subject them to slavery.  All this is easy for the governor if your Majesty command it, and is so necessary for the security of your Majesty’s vassals, as I intend to explain to your Majesty more at length in a separate memorial.

Item:  There is an island which lies about twenty leguas from Maluco, called Macacar, which measures about two hundred and fifty leguas around; it is very rich and well supplied, and from it the forces in Maluco could be supplied with ease and at little cost.  It will be necessary for your Majesty to order the governor to negotiate with the king there for friendship and commerce.  For the latter has already sent and written, saying that he desires it and that he will furnish all the supplies that are desired, and, if there is no money, will give credit for them until it is procured; and he has sent to ask for religious to preach the faith.  They are a capable people, of good disposition, and are disposed to receive the gospel.  As this district lies nearest to that which the fathers of the Society hold, it would be of much importance to send a few religious assigned to that island; and for your Majesty to be pleased to have their general requested to give them, which is of much importance even for temporal objects, besides the great service which they can render to God.  And the Dutch could not get supplies from there, which would take away from them much of the previsions with which they are supported.  Two fathers of the Society have been there, and have written that they were very well received; and it is highly expedient to encourage them.

Item:  Your Majesty should order the governor to attend with much diligence to the despatching of ships which go to Nueva Espana, for upon this so much of the growth of that kingdom depends; and since he is so good a sailor and prides himself upon it, he should regulate that in the proper way, for at present it proceeds with great disorder and even recklessness, as I shall explain to your Majesty in a separate memorial.