petition your Majesty for two things: one that your
Majesty be pleased to confirm them in the said mission of Mindanao,
for the bishops have entrusted it to them alone for many years (as
did I also), through expectation of great results in the conversion,
by means of the said fathers of the Society of Jesus; the other,
that your Majesty send a goodly reenforcement of the subjects of
that order, so that they may attend to everything. I think a good
reenforcement would be about forty, if most of them are priests,
who can immediately begin to instruct.

May our Lord preserve the royal person of your Majesty, as all
kingdoms need, and as I, the least of your Majesty's chaplains, beg
in my sacrifices and prayers. Manila, October seventeen, one thousand
six hundred and thirty-five.

_Fray Pedro,_
Bishop of Santisimo Nombre de Jhesus.

DOCUMENTS OF 1636

Discussion regarding Portuguese trade at Manila. Joseph de
Navada Alvarado, and others; 1632-36,
Decree extending the tenure of encomiendas. Felipe IV;
February 1.
Military services of Filipinos. Juan Grau y Monfalcon; June 13.
Conflicts between civil and ecclesiastical authorities,
1635-36. Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A.
Letter from a citizen of Manila to an absent friend. [Unsigned;
Fabian de Santillan y Gavilanes?]; June 15.
Request for Jesuit missionaries. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera;
June 19.
Letter from the bishop of Nueva Caceres to Felipe IV. Francisco
de Zamudio, O.S.A.; June 20.
List of prominent ecclesiastics in Manila and the
islands. Hernando de Guerrero, archbishop of Manila; 1636.

_Sources_: All but three of these documents are obtained from MSS. in
the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The second is from the
"Cedulario Indico" of the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; the
fourth, from Diaz's _Conquistas de las Islas Filipinas;_ the fifth,
from a MS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid.

_Translations_: All but one of these documents are translated by
James A. Robertson; the last is by Robert W. Haight.

DISCUSSION REGARDING PORTUGUESE TRADE AT MANILA

_Copy of seventeen articles which Joseph de Navada Alvarado, regidor of
the distinguished and loyal city of Manila, proposed to the municipal
council [ayuntamiento] of that city, in which he represents the
injuries and troubles which follow and have been experienced from
the Portuguese of Macan contin