d, if success is secured therein. I shall not
request your Majesty to give him audience, for all the community begs
that; and of the kindness with which you will receive his humble and
good intentions, proof is experienced here, and your Majesty will
appreciate them. And as he has no other thought, intent, or designs
than the common welfare, and the service of God and your Majesty,
both he and I have great fortitude and tranquillity. May God grant
your Majesty, in this life, what we all desire for you; and, in the
other and eternal life, what we all beg for your Majesty, and are all
assured is kept for you as a reward for the so many labors and cares
with which your Majesty has maintained, and maintains, the universal
Church. Manila, June 25, 1586. Your sacred royal Catholic Majesty's
most humble servant in our Lord.

Antonio Sedeno

[Addressed: "+ To the sacred royal Catholic Majesty of the King
Felippe, our sovereign."]

[Endorsed: "+ To his Majesty, no. 16. 1586. Manila, June 25. Antonio
Sedeno, rector of the Society of Jesus. In recommendation of Father
Alonso Sanchez."]

Letter of Domingo de Salazar to Felipe II

Royal Catholic Majesty:

As Father Alonso Sanchez, of the Society of Jesus, is going, in the
name of this community, to inform your Majesty of the condition of
these kingdoms, and of their need for reforms, I shall not dwell upon
that matter at all, but will refer you to what the said father will
relate in detail. But, inasmuch as there are certain special matters
that perhaps he will not mention, I thought that I should inform your
Majesty of them in the present letter.

Immediately upon the arrival of the royal Audiencia in these islands,
mass was commenced to be said in the royal chapel. According to the
usual procedure in other audiencias, the chaplains who said it ended
the prayer of the mass with that clause which reads, _et famulos
tuos_, etc.--in which, after the name of his Majesty, follow those of
the bishop and the president, and the others contained in the said
prayer. According to what is said in this principal church of this
city, the president and auditors erased the name of the bishop, and
substituted those of the auditors, under the name of senators. When
I heard of this, I ordered my name to be inserted, and those of the
auditors to be erased. This gave rise to animosity, and certain acts
were passed, which the dean declares were sent to the royal Council
[of the Indias] a