t or law may be
of moment, the writer prays and beseeches your Majesty to order the
said memorial to be rejected, and allow no other of similar import
to be received--with the addition of the declaration, if needed, that
the case has already been settled, and the claim is not entitled to a
hearing. In conclusion, without prejudice, however, to his plea nor
with abandonment of the same, he [i.e., Solana] prays that, should
a university be established, it be founded in the college of San
Ignacio of the said Society; and on each and every matter relating
thereto he files all the petitions needed therefor, wherein he will
receive favor with justice, etc. [20]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PHILIPINAS ISLANDS [21]

Although it appears by the information above that in regard to the
Philipinas Islands (which belong to the district of the Inquisition of
Mexico) it has not been possible to arrange the itinerary, because of
the great distance thither from this kingdom; and that the inquisitor
visitor, Doctor Don Pedro de Medina Rico, charged its execution by
letter to the father-definitor, Fray Diego de Jesus Maria, discalced
religious of St. Augustine, and calificador of the Holy Office, as
he had labored more than twenty years in the said islands--the said
letter being sent in duplicate in the two ships that left this kingdom
in this present year of one thousand six hundred and fifty-eight--yet,
because the said visitor has heard of the great knowledge of those
regions that is possessed by Father Maxino Sola, a religious of
the Society of Jesus (who is at present in the City of Mexico, and
about to go to the kingdoms of Castilla as procurator-general of the
province of Philipinas), in order that the said itinerary might be
arranged with greater despatch, and so that in the interim until the
coming of the person who shall settle things in those islands, there
may be such relation as we are able to have in this book (which must
be sent at the first opportunity to the most illustrious and most
reverend inquisitor-general and the members of the Council of the
general Holy Inquisition), his Lordship ordered me, Ygnacio de Paz,
that, continuing the work, I should set down the information given
by the said Father Maxino Sola. And, in obedience to that order,
that relation which I have been able to procure with the exercise of
all care and minuteness, is as follows.

Archbishopric of Manila

The city of Manila, from which t