Maurici de Nashau

By order of his Excellency: 

J.  Melander

[This is followed by a certificate (dated February 6, 1601) of the accuracy of the copy, with the statement that the original had been delivered to the royal notary for copying by Doctor Antonio de Morga.]

Documents of 1601

Report to the governor, on the battle with the Dutch.  Antonio de Morga, January 5.  Annual letters from the Philippine Islands.  Francisco Vaez, S.J.; June 10.  Letter to Felipe III.  Diego Garcia, S.J.; July 8.  Letter from the fiscal to Felipe III.  Hieronimo de Salazar y Salcedo; July 16.  Complaint of the cabildo of Manila against Morga.  Gonzalo Ronquillo de Vallesteros, and others; July 20.  Letter to Felipe III.  Antonio de Morga; July 30.  Grant to Jesuit school in Cebu.  Council of Indias; December 11.

Sources:  All these documents save one are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the second is taken from John Hay’s compilation De rebus Iaponicis, Indicis, et Pervanis (Antverpiae, M. DC. v.), pp. 950-968, from the copy in the Library of Congress.

Translations:  The first and fourth of these documents are translated by Norman F. Hall, of Harvard University; the second, by Henry B. Lathrop, of the University of Wisconsin; the third, fifth, and sixth, by Robert W. Haight; the seventh, by James A. Robertson.

Morga’s Report to the Governor on the Battle with the Dutch

Copy of a petition of Dr. Antonio de Morga to the governor, in which he gives an account of all that happened in the expedition against the Dutch corsair, presented as soon as he returned from it.

This is a copy well and faithfully made from a petition which it seems was presented by Dr. Antonio de Morga, auditor of the royal Audiencia of these islands, to Don Francisco Tello, knight of the Order of Santiago, who is governor and captain-general of these islands.  This is in connection with a suit brought by order of the said governor against Joan de Alcega, admiral of the royal fleet which went against the Dutch enemy which was sailing among these islands.  The said auditor was commander-in-chief of this fleet, and the admiral was the said Joan de Alcega, who deserted the royal flagship in time of battle.  It runs as follows: 

I, Dr. Antonio de Morga, auditor of the royal Audiencia and Chancilleria of these Philipinas Islands, say that in the month of October just passed, in the year one thousand six hundred, there came to these Islands for the purpose of robbery one Oliver de Nor, corsair and a heretic, and a native of the states of Flandes, with two men-of-war well provided with men, artillery, and munitions.  One of the two ships was large and strong, and was the flagship; the other, smaller