In the city of Manila, July twenty-three, one thousand six hundred and twenty-nine, I, the present secretary, read and announced the act (which is written on the leaf preceding this) enacted by Don Juan Nino de Tavora, governor and captain-general of these islands, to Licentiate Marcos Capata de Galvez, fiscal of this royal Audiencia, in his own person.  His Grace said that talking with the due respect, he appeals to the president and auditors of the said royal Audiencia, and requests the government secretary that, in accordance with the ordinance, he go to the Audiencia to make a report of this cause.  This was what he gave as his reply, and he affixed his signature thereto, witnesses being Licentiate Pedro Lopez and Juan de Caneda, residents of Manila.

Licentiate Marcos Capata de Galvez

Before me: 

Diego de Torres, royal notary.

Summons given to Don Fernando

In Manila, on the said day, month, and year, I, the undersigned notary, gave notice and summoned in due form, for the appeal interposed by the fiscal, and at his request, Don Fernando de Silva, in his own person.  He said that he hears it, and regards himself as summoned.  Witnesses were Captain Don Manuel de Torres and Alferez Bartolome Gomez, and I attest, the same.

Before me: 

Diego de Torres, royal notary.

Act of the royal Audiencia

In the city of Manila, July twenty-four, one thousand six hundred and twenty-nine, the president and auditors of the royal Audiencia and Chancilleria of these Filipinas Islands, having examined these acts in regard to the demand of his Majesty’s fiscal of this said royal Audiencia—­by virtue of which Don Fernando de Silva, knight of the habit of Santiago, and former governor and captain-general of these islands and president of this royal Audiencia, should give bonds to furnish residencia for the time while he exercised the said duties, for himself and his agents, and to pay the sum to which he may be adjudged and sentenced in that residencia, leaving a person with accepted powers to give the said residencia—­and the appeal interposed on the part of the said fiscal from the act enacted by the governor and captain-general of these islands on the twenty-third of the present month and year, in which he ordered that the said fiscal plead in this regard what he had to plead before whom and with the law that he ought:  declared that they returned this cause—­and they did return it—­to the said governor, so that as a competent judge, he might enact what should be just in the matter.  By this act they so enacted, ordered, and decreed.  Before me: 

Pedro Munoz de Herrera

Appeal of Don Fernando from the said act

Most potent Sire: