[49] On June 13, 1597, Felipe II issued a commission to Antonio de Morga to investigate charges of peculation which had been made against this man, as factor of the royal exchequer in the Philippines.

[50] See La Concepcion’s account of the loss of this ship (Hist. de Philipinas, iii, pp. 428-435).

[51] Spanish, colegio; see note 32, ante.

[52] A fund, the interest of which is required by the Spanish laws for the support of an ecclesiastic.

[53] Mauban is a town and anchorage in the northeast corner of Tayabas province, Luzon; it lies on the Pacific coast of the island, and southeast from Manila.

[54] In a squadron, the galley next in rank to the flagship or capitana.

[55] These names appear thus in the text; but they evidently refer to the same persons who are previously mentioned as Liguana and Ssapay.

[56] Sangir (or Sanguir) is a small island midway between Mindanao and Celebes; Tagolanda is another one, south of Sangir, about fifty miles northeast of Celebes.

[57] At the beginning of this letter is a brief summary of its contents.

[58] In 1601 the capital of Spain was removed from Madrid to Valladolid; but this measure proved so disastrous that Felipe III found it necessary to return to Madrid in 1606.

[59] Diego Cerrabe entered the Augustinian order at Burgos in 1584.  He came to the Philippines in 1595, and after various official services there, and two years’ ministry at Pasig, he went to Spain with messages from his chapter at Manila; apparently he did not return to the islands. (Perez’s Catalogo, p. 47.)

[60] The MS. is worn or mutilated at the places marked by leaders; the words in brackets are the translator’s conjectural readings.

[61] See definition of fuerza in Vol.  V, p. 292.  The reference here indicates that Tello or his friends, in order to oppose the fiscal’s proceedings, secured the interference of some ecclesiastical judge, who thus committed fuerza.