Auditor Redondo Villegas believed that the worst evil in Florida was the trouble between the royal officials and the governor. [Note 83: Pedro Redondo Villegas 4/18/1600] Such a view would be easy to exaggerate. There was after all no point in repeating, letter after letter, that things were going well, especially when governmental business in Florida did not operate smoothly within the law. At such times the creole royal officials and the peninsular governor were in agreement about matters of the treasury, the military, justice, and municipal and provincial government, they formed an impenetrable power block to forward their joint interests and made no report on these to the crown. From St. Augustine, official silence was tantamount to collusion. (Bushnell KC)