ovinces, who do not serve with so much friendship and promptness
as they (on the contrary, many of them rebel daily and go over to
the enemy), on seeing that your Majesty honors them by your royal
decrees, and that the governors appoint them to offices and duties,
will be encouraged to serve and to merit a like reward from your
Majesty. All of the above he represents, so that your Majesty may
take what measures may be deemed most fitting for your royal service.

[_Endorsed_: "Don Juan Grau, procurator-general of the Philipinas
Islands. June 13, 636. Have the governor notified to be very careful
for the Indians of these three provinces; and to encourage them
greatly. Order him to summon their leaders so that they may always
continue in his Majesty's service. Have a relation made to the effect
that we have heard that they serve well, and of their fidelity. This
being so, let him execute the aforesaid; and let nothing which is
here proposed be said that may annoy the military officers."]

CONFLICTS BETWEEN CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITIES, 1635-36

_SECOND BOOK OF THE SECOND PART OF THE CONQUESTS OF THE FILIPINAS
ISLANDS, AND CHRONICLE OF THE RELIGIOUS OF OUR FATHER, ST. AUGUSTINE_

[_Translation of title-page_: "Conquests of the Filipinas Islands:
the temporal by the arms of our Catholic Sovereigns of Espana, and
the spiritual by the religious of the Order of St. Augustine; and the
foundation and progress of the province of Santisimo Nombre de Jesus
of the same order. Part second: compiled by the use of the materials
which the very reverend father Fray Gaspar de San Agustin, [31]
author of the first part, collected, by Father Fray Casimiro Diaz, [32]
native of Toledo, of the Order of our father St. Augustine, chronicler
of this province of Santisimo Nombre de Jesus, procurator-general,
and twice secretary and definitor of the same. With the necessary
licenses. Valladolid [33] ... 1890."]

CHAPTER XV

_The raid of the Mindanao pirates into Leyte. Election of father Fray
Juan Ramirez as provincial. Arrival of the governor, Don Sebastian
Hurtado de Corcuera, and the religious who came in his company._

That year of 1634 was so quiet and so barren of events worthy of
remembrance that I shall not dwell long upon it; for there is nothing
of which I have heard to detain me, unless it be the raid of the
Mindanao enemy into the island of Leyte, and the depredations that
they committed there with the li