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.