(by whose intercession she had obtained a son), who had died soon afterward—­took charge of the foundation.  He erected a handsome building on that site for a church and convent, which was made of hewn stone.  He finished it at a personal cost to his estate of more than one hundred thousand pesos.  He assigned it suitable revenues in lands, and funds for the necessary repairs and rebuilding—­all the more liberally, as he had no necessary heir.

5.  In an authentic declaration that he made before the alcalde-in-ordinary of this city, Don Martin de Herrera—­received and testified before the notary-public, Juan de Villa Marin—­the patron, Don Bernardino, declares that the impelling motive for undertaking and perfecting the work of church and convent was his great devotion to San Nicolas de Tolentino, and his having recognized in the discalced Augustinian religious, from the time of their arrival in this city, learned, virtuous, and serious men; and the knowledge that they were gathering much fruit in this community and among the natives round about.  In their manner of acting, they persuaded men that they were all true servants of God.  That had moved him to aid them in their very severe need; and he had taken under his charge convent and church, building them a new edifice from the foundations up.  He had bought many pieces of ground for them at excessive prices; in that way and on the work, he had spent a large sum, and he considered it well employed.  He declared that he was ready to spend much more, even to the extent of all his wealth, and to be left with only his assigned pay of castellan; for the said Recollect religious deserve it by their example and virtue.  For the repairs and preservation of the work, he assigned a fitting income from many lands.  It is estimated that he spent on and endowed it, in all, with one hundred and fifty thousand pesos, although with obligations to chaplaincies.  Besides that, he adorned the church, and continually expended money for it.

6.  He also had a garden or country-house, called Calumpang, because of its location.  He made them a present of it, and of a portion of the lands surrounding it, on condition that the said religious found a convent on that site, where some religious could live retired and free from disturbance.  The then vice-provincial, Fray Rodrigo de San Miguel, took possession, after obtaining the necessary licenses from the government and from the archbishop.  With these was formed a convent of the same house, and a small church was erected under the invocation of St. Sebastian, being dedicated to that glorious martyr, a being to whom especial devotion was paid by its founders, who aided its cost with their wealth.  The archbishop, then Don Fray Miguel Garcia Serrano, adjudged [to it] the spiritual administration of the tenants of the lands, to the number of about thirty houses.  The minister of Sampoloc had a suit pending about those tenants, but as soon as they were adjudged to that new church,