Abuses or disorders which have been fostered in the Filipinas Islands
under the shelter of religion, and at the cost of the royal treasury,
which ought to be cut down at the root, so that the governors who may
be sent to those parts, if they are good may be better, and if bad
may not be worse--and, at least, so that they may not have any excuse;
so that religion may be established on its sure principles of purity,
in order that the king may be owner of those domains (until now he
has been owner in the matter of expense); and finally, so that his
Majesty's vassals, both Spaniards and Indians, may be vassals of
their king alone, and may be relieved from the abominable slavery
which they have borne for about two hundred years. [68]