Former Adjutant Alonso de Peraza, of this camp, I have appointed captain of infantry, of the company which served in the said forts of Therrenate under Captain Don Juan de Santiesteban Bracamonte, as the latter had permission to come to this city.  I made this appointment because he has the necessary qualifications and abilities, and has served your Majesty twenty-four years in this region in the military profession, in these islands and those of Therrenate.  He was present at the recovery of the latter, and during the two fights when the Dutch General Pablos Blancanden was taken, and in other encounters and battles which took place on land and sea, against the Dutch, and the natives of Therrenate.  He became a sergeant, and was present at the battle between General Don Juan Rronquillo and the Dutch.  He was a second time made sergeant, and again alferez, from which he was promoted to be an adjutant, and has rendered other distinguished services.  He has a salary of six hundred pesos per year, which he is to enjoy, from the day when the said company is given over to him.  I sent him his commission on the seventeenth of November, one thousand six hundred and twenty-seven.

Captain Roderigo de Mesa I have appointed captain of a company which was brought to this city, and which he took to reinforce the forts of Therrenate.  For he is a person of the necessary qualifications, and has served your Majesty twenty-four years in this region in the military profession, both in these islands and in those of Therrenate—­where he served fifteen years with success as a private musketeer, a commander of a squadron with extra pay, sergeant, alferez, and adjutant, in the said camp—­being present whenever there was occasion for his service, on land or sea, and rendering distinguished services, as appeared by his papers.  He draws as salary six hundred pesos per year.  I sent his commission on the twenty-seventh of November of one thousand six hundred and twenty-seven.

I have appointed Captain Alonso de Balle alcalde-mayor and military commander of the province of Ylocos, owing to the death of Captain Alvaro de Loazes, for there are found in him the necessary qualifications and abilities.  He has served your Majesty for twenty-two years past in these islands, being present when occasion offered, and has acquitted himself well.  From the offices with which he is entrusted he draws a salary of three hundred pesos of common gold per year, for which he serves both offices.  I sent his commission on the sixth of December, one thousand six hundred and twenty-seven.

Captain Don Fernando Bezerra I have appointed commander of the ship “Santisima Trinidad,” which I sent with reenforcements and supplies to join the two armed galleons which General Don Juan de Alcaraso took in his charge to Pulotimon, and other parts of Sian, to secure thereby good results for the service of your Majesty, because it was impossible to take with them a patache when they left for Macan.  I gave him this appointment because he has the qualifications needed, and has served in the military profession in these islands and in Therrenate for a long time, rendering distinguished services.  He drew a salary at the rate of six hundred Castilian ducados a month, which is the wages of similar commanders.  I sent him the commission on the thirteenth of December of the year one thousand six hundred and twenty-seven.