The memorials of Pedro Fernández de Quirós to Philip III

A campaign of petitions, some of them made public, by which a pilot tried for a decade to get a fleet sent back to the South Sea. The crown treated his written memorial as an asset transmissible to a successor, then paid him an allowance to keep him quiet, and the Council of State advised the king that the danger in refusing was that the man would carry his proposals to other princes.