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them very much to look chiefly to Your Majesty's service, endeavouring to satisfy the said Tapia and not to give occasion for any tumult as I was about starting to see him, ready to comply with what Your Majesty had ordered and was most suitable to your service. Being on the very eve of starting on my journey, and the captain and people, whom I intended to send to the river Panuco, having been detained here, where it was necessary, while I was away for this city to remain well guarded, the Procurators of this New Spain requested me with many protestations not to leave, because, as this entire province of Mexico and Temixtitan had only recently been pacified, it would be disturbed by my absence, and much injury would be done to the service of Your Majesty and to the tranquillity of the country; they gave many other causes and reasons for their said requirement that I should not leave this city at that present time, and they told me they would go themselves to the city of Vera Cruz where the said Tapia was staying, with power of attorney from the councillors, and would see the warrants of Your Majesty and do all that was suitable to Your Royal service. As this seemed to us expedient, the said procurators left, and I wrote to the said Tapia letting him know what was happening, and that I was sending my power of attorney to Gonzalo de Sandoval, alguacil mayor, and to Diego de Soto and Diego Valdenebro, who were there in the town of Vera Cruz, in order that in my name, they together with the municipal councillors and procurators of their municipal councils, might take measures to do what was suitable to Your Majesty's service and for the good of the country; for they have been and are persons who would do so. They met Tapia, who was already on the road, accompanied by Fray Pedro, and required him to return to the city of Cempoal, and there Tapia presented Your Majesty's provisions which were received by all, with the submission due to Your Majesty. As