ABSTRACT
Most humbly we entreat Your Majesty for the good of the royal service to issue orders to assure the safety of this (p. 4) city pending representation on our behalf, and petition for those things necessary to its relief and reconstruction and improvement, all so vital to Your Majesty's service and communications with the Indies. Because in such extremities promptitude is the best remedy which can be applied, we entreat Your Majesty to act with speed commensurate with so great hardship and calamity, whose sacred Catholic royal person Our Lord preserve with increase of more kingdoms and dominions, as is desired.
