After Governor Mendez de Canzo had addressed Treasurer Juan Menendez Marquez publicly as “vos,” his epithets of “insolent” and “shameless one” were superfluous. The crown’s reaction to such disrespect toward its treasury officials was to reprimand the offender and order him in the future to “treat them in speech as is proper to the authority of their persons and the offices in which they serve us, and because it is right that in everything they be honored. [Note 83: Juan Menendez Marquez 9/20/1602; cedula to Gov. Menendez Marquez 4/19/1583] (Bushnell KC)