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De Luna was ordered to leave FL

Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558

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As captain-general of the fleet and of Florida he [Viceroy Velasco] named Don Tristan de Luna, who set out from Vera Cruz, and after one month's sailing arrived with his entire fleet. Dropping anchor in a harbor which he called Santa Maria, he landed. De Luna explored several provinces, until he reached Coza,t [Arredondo note t Where Hernando De Soto had been.] where he remained until for valid reasons the viceroy ordered him to retire with all his people, which he did in the year 1561. 11. [Bolton note: While awaiting new supplies from Mexico a thousand colonists went inland to Alabama River, and an exploring party penetrated farther north to Coosa. Returning with his colony to the coast, De Luna was replaced in the command by Villafafie. After an unsuccessful attempt to settle at Santa Elena the enterprise went to pieces in 1561. Lowery, Spanish Settlement* . . . 1513-1561, pp. 351-377; Barcia, Ensayo CronMgico, 32-41; Davila Padilla, Fray Augustm, Histoid de la Provincia de Santiago de Mexico (Brussels, 1625), 189 et seq.; Greenhow, Robert, The History of Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and California, etc., Vol. I (N. Y., 1856), 119-125, 357-362.]