however, impossible to support the said
residence. It has need of repairs on its house, and, on account of
its narrow quarters, of erecting new buildings; and because it has
no alms, in lands or chaplaincies, [52] for the mass or any other
of the purposes referred to, it is in great want, as is evident by
the investigations made in the royal Audiencia of the said islands,
which were examined in the Council. He entreats that your Majesty, in
consideration of the aforesaid, will order that the said two hundred
pesos and two hundred fanegas of rice--which were granted to it,
as stated, by the said governor from the treasury of the fourths--be
set aside for it from the royal treasury, as the other fund is not
a permanent one. He further asks that you will bestow upon it from
the royal treasury one thousand pesos of income for its support,
and three thousand, to be paid once, for repairs and buildings for
the said residence; since your Majesty is wont to favor the other
parts of the Yndias for this purpose, as there is no other recourse
for aid. After examining this matter in the Council, our opinion is
that, if your Majesty be so pleased, one thousand pesos of eight reals
each, might be given once to that residence from the royal treasury of
the Philipinas, as an aid in building its houses; and that, besides,
information concerning it should be obtained from the governor and
the archbishop. Valladolid, December 11, 1601.

[_Endorsed:_ "Council of the Indias; December 11, 1601. In regard
to the aid and alms that should be bestowed upon the residence
of the Society in the city of Santisimo Nombre de Jesus, of the
Philippinas." "So let it be."]

Documents of 1602

Instructions to Pedro de Acuna. Felipe III; February 16.
Two royal decrees. Felipe III; February 16.
Pintados menaced by Mindanao pirates. Juan Juarez Gallinato,
and others; May 29-June 4.
Letters to Felipe III. L. P. Dasmarinas, and others; June
8-July 10.

_Source_: All these documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo
general de Indias, Sevilla.

_Translations_: The first document is translated by Alfonso de Salvio,
of Harvard University; the second, and part of the fourth, by Robert
W. Haight; the third, and part of the fourth, by Norman F. Hall, of
Harvard University; the first letter in the fourth, by Jose M. and
Clara M. Asensio.

Instructions to Pedro de Acuna

The King: To Don Pedro de Acun