5. Memorial of 1586.—­“Simancas—­Eclesiastico; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes del cavildo ecclesiastico de Filipinas vistos en el Consejo ano de 1586 a 1670; est. 68, caj. 7, leg. 35.”  The latter part is obtained from a MS. in the Real Academia de la Historia; its pressmark, “Papeles de las Jesuitas, tomo 8, fol. 330-339.”

6. Letter by Chaves.—­The same as No. 1, except that no ramo is indicated.

7. Letter by the cabildo.—­“Simancas—­Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y espedientes del cavildo secular de Manila vistos en el Consejo; anos 1570 a 1640; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 27.”

8. Letter by Sedeno.—­“Simancas—­Eclesiastico; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes de personas eclesiasticos; ano de 1570 a 1608; est. 68, caj. 1, leg. 42.”

9. Letter by Salazar.—­“Simancas—­Eclesiastico; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes del Arzobispo de Filipinas vistos en el Consejo; anos 1579 a 1679; est. 68, caj. 1, leg. 32.”

10. Letter by the Audiencia.—­The same as No. 2.

11. Letter by Rojas.—­The same as No. 9.

12. Letter by Moron.  “Simancas—­Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes de personas seculares de Filipinas vistos en el Consejo; ano de 1565 a 1594; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 34.”

13. Measures regarding trade with China.—­The same as No. 10 (which is one of the papers grouped in this document).

14. Letter by Villamanriquez.—­Same as No. 6.

15. Letter by Vera (1587).—­The same as No. 12.

16. Letter by the Audiencia (1588).—­The same as No. 2.

NOTES

[1] Something is apparently omitted here, perhaps a statement that the Audiencia shall make the necessary ordinance, to have provisional force (cf. section 310); but a careful examination of the original document fails to explain the difficulty.

[2] Andres de Aguirre was one of the Augustinians who came with Rada and Herrera to the Philippines with Legazpi’s expedition.  He was a native of Vizcaya, Spain, and made his religious profession at Salamanca in 1532.  He was a missionary among the natives of Mexico from 1536 to 1564; the rest of his life was spent in connection with the Philippine missions, largely as an envoy for their affairs to the court of Spain.  He died at Manila (where he was then prior of his order) in September, 1593.  See sketch of his life and list of his writings in Perez’s Catalogo religiosos agustinos (Manila, 1901), pp. 6-7.

[3] The symbol U was used, in accounts, to designate thousands, in the same way as the comma, or the comma with ciphers, is now used in numerical notation.