oins of gold, as
appears by the said books and papers to which I refer. In certification
whereof, and that this may be apparent, I have, on the petition of the
dean and chapter, _sede vacante_, given these presents in Manila on the
fifth of July of the year one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine."

[13] _Vosotros_: the familiar form of the second person plural of
the personal pronoun; its use in this case was a mark of contempt
for his audience.

[14] The convent of San Francisco del Monte was situated at
somewhat more than a league from Manila; and an estate was granted
to the Franciscan order by Santiago de Vera, for the support of the
convent. See Santa Ines's _Cronica_, i, pp. 531-534, for full account
of its foundation.

[15] This dignitary was Fray Miguel Benavides, of the Dominican order;
see _Vol_. VII, p. 234.

[16] Morga says of this affair, in his _Sucesos_ (Hakluyt Soc. trans.),
p. 62: "Ronquillo was set at liberty on showing a private letter
from the governor, which he had sent him separately with the first
instructions, ordering him in any case to come to Manila with all his
forces, because he wanted them for other necessities of the islands;
and Don Juan said that on the strength of that letter he had not
waited for second instructions."

[17] According to Morga, this chief was killed by some of his own
followers, to gain the reward offered by the Spaniards.

[18] Span., _negros cambales_. It is possible that _y_ was omitted by
some error; or it may mean the blacks who lived in the hill-country
of the Zambales district. The Zambales were a Malay tribe; but, as
we have already seen (_Vol_. VIII, p. 218), their revolt against the
Spaniards in 1591-92 was in association with the Negritos of that
region. As will be remembered, the Zambales surviving that revolt
were placed in new settlements in other districts.

[19] Another corruption of Kuwambaku, the official appellation of
Hideyoshi, then ruler of Japan (see _Vol_. VIII, p. 262, and note 42).

[20] Morga states that Navarrete, after sending the letter to Tello
died at Nangasaki.

[21] Gaspar de Zuniga y Acebedo, Conde de Monterey, was viceroy of
Nueva Espana from September 18, 1595, to September, 1603, when he
became viceroy of Peru; he died in March, 1606, while in the latter
office.

[22] This statement is somewhat blindly worded; but Tello apparently
means that the viceroy, to save expense to the royal treasury, sends
government suppli