of Manila, on the twenty-third day of July in the year
one thousand six hundred and twenty-four, the honorable president and
auditors of the royal Audiencia and Chancilleria of these Philipinas
Islands, in whose charge is the government thereof, declared that
[they have resolved upon this measure] in view of the fact that Senor
Don Alonso Faxardo de Tenga, formerly governor and captain-general of
these said islands, and president of the royal Audiencia, undertook
to found a seminary [and] college where Japanese should be educated,
instructed in religion, and taught, so that when they had received holy
orders they might go to the kingdom of Japan and preach and instruct
there in our holy faith, after the manner and likeness of the English
colleges in the kingdoms of Espana, and other Christian countries--for
which purpose he designated space and locations for a church, house,
and garden in the unoccupied land outside the walls of the said city;
and for the income and maintenance of the said seminary [and] college
he designated and applied the income from the passage and navigation
from this city to the port of Cavite, and the monopoly of buyo, bonga,
[23] and tobacco, which he ordered to be established by a royal decree,
which, to this purpose, was despatched in the name of his Majesty
on the twenty-ninth of January of this present year. By this it was
commanded that no person should make use of the said passage, nor of
the carriage and sale of the said buyo, bonga, and tobacco, excepting
those who hold it in lease for the said college and its administrators,
or those named by them for this purpose, under the penalties which
are imposed upon them by the magistrates. From this have resulted
great discontent and scandal in all ranks of this commonwealth, and
particularly among serious persons therein, both ecclesiastical and
lay--who, being moved by zeal for the service of God our Lord, and of
his Majesty, and for the prosperity and preservation of these islands
and the citizens and natives thereof, have made representations of
the many difficulties resulting from the aforesaid grant, not only
in sermons which have many times been preached in regard to this, but
likewise by information and declaration to the judges and ministers of
his Majesty, that they might aid in procuring relief therein, as it
is a thing so important for the royal service. For the establishment
of the said college and seminary was accomplished at a time