Section 7.  Since Father Alonso Sanchez will, on account of his thorough knowledge of affairs in this country, China, and the states of Eastern India, discuss with your Majesty these and many other things—­all touching the service of God and your Majesty—­and petition you concerning them, we humbly beg that your Majesty will please to grant him free audience; for in all, and by all, we ratify everything that he may relate and declare to your Majesty.  May God, our Lord, preserve and exalt your Majesty’s sacred royal Catholic person, with the increase of kingdoms and seigniories that we, your subjects and vassals, desire.  Manila, June 25, 1586.

Don Juan de Bivero, archdeacon of this holy cathedral church, has served in it for twenty years, and has taken part in all the work of pacification in these islands, in administering the holy sacraments to the soldiers and citizens—­in all, serving God and your Majesty very religiously.  At present he is in dire need, for he has been given no recompense for his services, and this country has no benefices or other ecclesiastical incomes from which he might be supported.  We beseech that your Majesty be pleased to order some recompense to be given him, since he so well deserves it.  This will be a very signal favor and kindness to this city.  Sacred royal Catholic Majesty, your Majesty’s servants and vassals.

Andres de Villanueva
Don Antonio Sufre Carrillo
Andres Cabchela
Don Francisco de Poca y Guevara
Juan de Moron
Juan Maldonado del Castillo
Juan Baptista Roman
Rodriguez Albarez
Francisco RroS
Hernando Nunez de Pyatos
Luis de Bivanco
Hernando Vergara

Letter from Antonio Sedeno to Felipe II

I.H.S.

Sacred Royal Catholic Majesty: 

It is five or six years since the Society, at your Majesty’s orders, sent me to these Philippinas Islands, together with some fathers and brethren.  In these islands we have endeavored, during all this time, to attend to the needs and welfare of the country, in the service of God, and, with especial care and effect, in that of your Majesty.  Besides ordinary occasions, two noteworthy cases have arisen in the course of these years, beyond, these islands and in China, in which we have lent our aid by order of your Majesty’s governors, the bishop, and the chief personages of these islands, by sending Father Alonso Sanchez-of whom your Majesty has notice already—­the first time to reduce to your obedience the Portuguese of those regions.  This he accomplished with the success and skill of which your Majesty will have heard, and with many hardships—­both in China, and Macan, and in his voyaging—­as your Majesty will have learned by his relations.  On the second occasion he was sent, by the same order, to reduce a vessel, which had mutinied in China, which he accomplished also so well, that the factor, who was going with the warrants, confesses that without