f Goa, and a house of my order to the province of Cochin or
Malabar (which is one and the same thing)--your Majesty paying both
the expenses of the military and the salaries of the ecclesiastical
persons from your royal treasury of Manila.

Because of the troubles that Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera
recognized while governor, after the insurrection of Portugal and their
conquests, he had the religious withdrawn--leaving only the vicar,
because of the jurisdiction--which could not be administered by secular
officials, but by those to whom it belongs. After Don Diego Faxardo
assumed that government, he again introduced Portuguese religious
there, and withdrew those of my province. [That plan was pursued]
until Don Saviniano Manrrique de Lara assumed the same government,
who, on account of information from the warden of those forts, again
withdrew the religious from Yndia, and likewise the vicar--entrusting
to my provincial that administration and house, at the advice of the
archbishop of Manila. That charge was immediately accepted, in order
to serve your Majesty; and it has been thus far fulfilled.

Although those presidios and the king of Tidore (who is a Christian)
and the people of those districts have persons to administer the holy
sacraments to them, their ministers have no jurisdiction, as it has
to emanate from the ordinary of Malaca. In the same way there is no
commissary of the Inquisition, as the tribunal of Goa thus far has
jurisdiction there. Malaca, to which the said forts belonged, has
been occupied by the Dutch since the year six hundred and forty-one;
and our holy Roman faith is no longer exercised there, nor has there
been left any city or village of that bishopric which could obtain
that see. Also is there no hope of the restoration of what has been
lost, according to the trend of the times. Because of that loss the
jurisdiction of Terrenate had to be transferred either to the bishopric
of Cochin--which is the nearest one, being distant thence six hundred
leguas--or to the metropolitan of Goa, which is seven hundred leguas
from Malaca, while the first one is one thousand three hundred leguas
and the second one thousand four hundred from Terrenate. Consequently,
on account of the long navigation, they cannot be furnished with
supplies from there, as their proper administration requires. For
that same reason they were not visited for more than twenty years
by any ordinary or ecclesiastical superior, a