Don Juan Nino de Tavora
Licentiate Geronimo de Legaspi
Licentiate Don Mathias Flores
Licentiate Marcos Zapata de Galvez”

[64] La Concepcion relates this occurrence (Hist. de Philipinas, v, pp. 139-145), and its effect on the archbishop, Serrano; he was so horrified and grieved that he fell into a profound melancholy, which ended his life on June 14, 1629.  The disposal of the stolen articles was finally made known in the confessional by one of the accomplices in the theft.

[65] The Portuguese commander Albuquerque had in 1508 seized the more important ports on the eastern coast of ’Oman, which were then tributary to the ruler of Hormuz—­a petty principality on the southern coast of Persia, afterward removed (about 1300 A.D.) to the island now called Hormuz (or Ormuz).  The Portuguese exacted tribute from these towns, and from the ruler of Hormuz; and later cooeperated with him in enforcing his authority over his tributaries, and defending him from foreign foes.  They were expelled from ’Oman by its imam, Nasir-bin-Murshid (who reigned from 1624 to 1649)—­except from Maskat and el-Matrah, which was accomplished by his successor, Sultan-bin-Seif, by 1652.  See George P. Badger’s Imams and Seyyids of ’Oman (Hakluyt Society’s publications, London, 1871), pp. xxii, 4, 46, 66-69, 74, 78-90.

[66] i.e., “We have passed through fire and water, and thou hast brought us out into a refreshment.” (Psalm lxv, v. 12, Douay Bible; lxvi in Protestant versions.)

[67] Many of these exiles went to Formosa and other neighboring islands.

[68] Thus in original (la mucha Plata qe tomaron a los dichos Religiosos, q_e_ dicen serian dos mil sacos de hazienda); but one would hardly expert that so large an amount of silver could have been borrowed, as the context would indicate, from the merchants of Manila (apparently for an investment in Japanese goods, from the proceeds of which the friars in charge of it might aid their persecuted brethren in Japan) for conveyance by two friars on so dangerous and uncertain a voyage—­doubly so, since the Japanese authorities had strictly forbidden all trade between their ports and Manila.

[69] i.e., on the bar at the mouth of the river of Siam (the Chow Payah, commonly called Meinam).  For account of the capture of the Japanese vessel, see “Relation of 1627-28,” ante.

In a letter of August 4, 1630, the governor says, regarding the question that arose on account of the capture of the Japanese junk:  “For the preservation of the commerce of the Japanese with Macan, which is interrupted by the capture of one of their junks by our galleons in the port of Sian in May of 628, the investigations which I have written during the last two years have been made by my efforts.  The Japanese have become somewhat more softened, because they have understood that it was not the intention