tes, and
all persons whom the said Esaias de Lende shall encounter; and we
also give express orders to all admirals, vice-admirals, colonels,
captains, and other military men on sea or land, and others who are
under the government of these provinces and owe them obedience--to
recognize him as captain of the said ship, and to allow him, with
the said ship and crew, not only to go and trade wherever he shall
please, but also to assist him, and extend him all favor, aid,
and succor, from which we shall receive great and especial favor
and satisfaction. We will render favors to them on like occasions,
and our people will perform for them the services for which they are
under obligation. Given at La Haya [The Hague], on the twelfth of
May in the year one thousand five hundred and ninety-eight.

_Maurici de Nashau_

By order of his Excellency:

_J. Melander_

[This is followed by a certificate (dated February 6, 1601) of the
accuracy of the copy, with the statement that the original had been
delivered to the royal notary for copying by Doctor Antonio de Morga.]

Documents of 1601

Report to the governor, on the battle with the Dutch. Antonio
de Morga, January 5.
Annual letters from the Philippine Islands. Francisco Vaez,
S.J.; June 10.
Letter to Felipe III. Diego Garcia, S.J.; July 8.
Letter from the fiscal to Felipe III. Hieronimo de Salazar
y Salcedo; July 16.
Complaint of the cabildo of Manila against Morga. Gonzalo
Ronquillo de Vallesteros, and others; July 20.
Letter to Felipe III. Antonio de Morga; July 30.
Grant to Jesuit school in Cebu. Council of Indias; December 11.

_Sources_: All these documents save one are obtained from MSS. in the
Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the second is taken from John Hay's
compilation _De rebus Iaponicis, Indicis, et Pervanis_ (Antverpiae,
M. DC. v.), pp. 950-968, from the copy in the Library of Congress.

_Translations_: The first and fourth of these documents are translated
by Norman F. Hall, of Harvard University; the second, by Henry
B. Lathrop, of the University of Wisconsin; the third, fifth, and
sixth, by Robert W. Haight; the seventh, by James A. Robertson.

Morga's Report to the Governor on the Battle with the Dutch

_Copy of a petition of Dr. Antonio de Morga to the governor, in which
he gives an account of all that happened in the expedition against
the Dutch corsair, presented as soon as