event might ensue, may be avoided.  And I require and summon you, Fernando Riquel, notary-in-chief of this camp, to read and make known this response and protest, and the clauses mentioned therein, to the said captain-general, and the other captains of his fleet; and, with his response, or without the same, to give me the testimonies and copies necessary to me in his majesty’s interest, and to my own in his royal name.  Given in Cubu, on the twentieth day of October of the year one thousand five hundred and sixty-eight.

Miguel Lopez de Legazpi.

(Notification: The foregoing answer and clauses, I, Fernando Riquel, notary-in-chief in the government employ, read and made known to the said very illustrious Gonzalo Pereira, captain-general of the Portuguese fleet, in his own person, as well as to the other captains of his fleet, de verbo ad verbum, in such a way that it was understood—­those captains being Alvaro de Mendonca, Don Duarte de Meneses, Simon de Mendoca, Lorenco Furtado de Mendoca, and Mendo Ruellas de Vasconcelos—­on the twentieth day of the month of October of the year one thousand five hundred and sixty-eight.  And let it be understood, that although I reckon today as the twentieth of October, the summons to which this is the response, was made upon the twenty-first everything having been done upon the same day.  The cause for this is the difference between the Portuguese and the Castilians, the former reckoning one day ahead, and so it is in all the rejoinders and summons.  I delivered this notification and summons to the said parties on the galley “San Francisco,” this day, the twentieth of October, in the presence of the foregoing persons, and of Alonso Alvarez Furtado, factor of his highness—­all of whom signed their names here, together with me; likewise Christoval Ponce, notary of his majesty’s camp.  Simaon de Mendonca, Alvoro de Mertdonca, Lourenco Furtado de Mendonca, Don Duarte de Meneses, Alfonso Alvarez Furtado, Mendornellas de Vasconcellos, Christoval Ponse de Leon.

I testify thereto, Fernando Riquel.)

(This copy was closely and faithfully compared with the original by me, Pero Bernaldez, notary-public of this fleet, without there being found any interlineation or erasure of a kind which would cause doubt—­although there is an interlineation—­dha [dicha, “said”] which was truthfully inserted.  The said Fernao Riquel, notary-in-chief, was present at the comparison, and signed his name together with Baltesar de Freitas, notary of the fleet, who placed here his approval.  This day, the twenty-ninth of December of the year one thousand five hundred and sixty-eight.

Pero Bernaldez.)

(This copy was compared before me, Baltesar de Freitas, notary of the fleet, on the said day and year above specified.

Baltesar de Freitas.)

(On the day, month, and year aforesaid, I was present at the collation and comparison of this copy.