Seeing that I did not find any property of the said Don Francisco Tello with which to fulfil the aforesaid commission, and hearing that he had some property which he kept secret, I asked for and received letters of excommunication and censure against those who might know of property belonging to the said Don Francisco Tello, in order that they should make it known.  They opposed this, and tried to delay it as much as possible; but nevertheless it was ordered that the three letters should be given.  They appealed from this, and menaced me with the aid of fuerza [61]—­with the result that until the sixth of this month the last letter could not be read, so that the examination of the depositions that were taken has been delayed.  According to them, it appears that he has no property of any account in these islands, but that what he has is in Nueva Espana; and whatever I have been able to hear of I give notice to the viceroy of that country to attach, because the ships are about to sail, and the governor is in Cavite, and I cannot get a warrant for it.  God keep the Catholic person of your Majesty, according to His power.  From Manila, on the tenth of July of the year 1602.

The licentiate Hieronimo de Salazar y Salzedo

[Endorsed:  “Examined on the second of July, 1604.  Let it be put with another from the royal officials of Philipinas, of July 18, 1603.”]

Bibliographical Data

All documents in this volume save two are obtained from the original MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; and their pressmarks therein are indicated as follows: 

1. Ordinances of the Audiencia (concluded).—­See Vol.  X, No. 15.

2. Hospital for Indians.—­“Simancas-Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes de personas seculares, vistos en el Consejo; anos 1595 a 1606; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 35.”

3. Letters from the fiscal, 1599.—­“Simancas-Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y espedientes del presidente y oidores de dicha audiencia vistos en el Consejo; anos de 1583 a 1600; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 18.”

4. Letter from king of Borneo.—­The same as No. 3, save that the dates read, “1583 a 1599.”

5. Letters from Telia.—­“Simancas-Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes del gobernador de Filipinas vistos en el Consejo; anos de 1567 a 1599; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 6.”

6. Letters from Felipe III.—­The first one:  “Simancas-Filipinas; cartas y espedientes del presidente y oidores de dha Audiencia vistos en el Consejo; anos de 1600 a [1606]; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 19.” (The second:  in “Cedulario Indico” of Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid, “Tomo 38, fº. 131.6, nº. 101.”)

7. Pacification of Mindanao.—­The same as No. 6, first part.

8. Van Noordt’s attack.—­“Simancas-Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes del presidente y oidores de dicha Audiencia vistos en el Consejo; anos de 1600 a 1612; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 19;” but on the last of the papers in this group the dates read, “1600 a 1606.”