2. Decrees regarding religious orders.—­(A) The first:  “Simancas—­Audiencia de Filipinas; consultas originales correspondientes a dha Audiencia desde el ano de 1586 a 1636; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 1.” (b) The second and third:  “Audiencia de Filipinas; registros de oficio; reales ordenes dirigidas a las autoridades del distrito de la Audiencia; anos de 1597 a 1634; est. 105, caj. 2, leg. 1.”

3. Grant to Jesuit seminary.—­“Simancas—­Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes de religiosos y misioneros en Filipinas vistos en el Consejo; anos de 1569 a 1616; est. 68, caj. 1, leg. 37.”

4. Decree regulating commerce.—­The same as No. 2, (b).

5. Complaints against the Chinese.—­“Audiencia de Filipinas; Simancas—­Eclesiastico; cartas y espedientes del arzobispo de Manila vistos en el Consejo; anos de 1579 a 1679; est. 68, caj. 1, leg. 32.”

6. Letter from Chinese official.-The same as No. 1.

7. Letters from Augustinians.—­“Simancas—­Eclesiastico; cartas y expedientes de personas eclesiasticas vistos en el Consejo; anos 1570 a 1608; est. 68, caj. 1, leg. 42.”  The letter from Santa Catherina—­the same as No. 5.

8. Letter from Maldonado.—­“Simancas—­Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes del presidente y oidores de dicha Audiencia vistos en el Consejo; anos de 1600 a 1606; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 19.”

NOTES

[1] Marginal reference:  “I John, 2.”

[2] A town on the western coast of Samar, ten miles east of Catbalogan.

[3] These were Father Melchor Hurtado and Francisco Gonzalez, and the brother coadjutor Diego Rodriguez.  They were sent from Mexico in March by Francisco Vaez, the provincial of Nueva Espana.—­Pablo Pastells, S.J.

[4] Referring to Ignatius de Loyola (1491-1556), the founder of the Jesuit order, and afterward a saint; he is here mentioned as “blessed,” as he was not canonized until 1622.

[5] The religious exercises recommended by Loyola, and composed by him while in retirement near Manresa, Spain, in 1522; they from a book entitled Exercitia spiritualia ("Spiritual exercises”) which has ever since been a text-book of the Jesuit order.

[6] “The figure of a lamb stamped on the wax which remains from the paschal candles, and solemnly blessed by the pope on the Thursday after Easter, in the first and seventh years of his pontificate.” (Addis and Arnold’s Catholic Dictionary, pp. 17, 18.)

[7] Apparently meaning the interior pellicle of bamboo (Bambus arundo; Vol.  XII, pp. 189, 190, note 44), used in Eastern lands as a substitute for paper.

[8] Decurias:  alluding to a custom in Spanish schools of placing the pupils, by tens (or sometimes in smaller numbers), under the charge of the most competent of the older students, under the supervision of the master of the school.