viceroy, governor
and captain-general of Nueva Spana, or to the person or persons in
whose charge the government thereof may be: Don Francisco Tello, my
governor and captain-general of the Philipinas Islands, has informed
me of the prosperous condition of the seminary of Sancta Potenciana
at Manila, where girls are sheltered, and of the retirement and the
exemplary lives which they lead, and that many of them intend to remain
in the said seminary. I wrote to you to send them, from Nueva Spana,
two religious women for the said seminary, but you answered to the
effect that none of them dared to go. As this is of great importance,
and should be carried out, for the establishment of that seminary and
the settlement there of professed nuns, and that its inmates may be
thoroughly trained in piety, I charge and command that you that, in
any event, you make arrangements to send there the said two religious
women from one of the convents of your country, and that they shall
be persons of approved character--and this on account of the great
service which this will be for our Lord; and you shall advise me of
what is done in the matter.

Given at Camora, on the sixteenth of February, in the year one thousand
six hundred and two.

_I, The King_

Countersigned by

_Joan de Ybarra_

Signed by the Council.

[_Endorsed:_ "To the viceroy of Nueva Spana, directing him to send
thence to the Philipinas certain religious for the establishment of
a seminary."]

Pintados Menaced by Mindanao Pirates

_Testimony which Captain Gallinato sent to the governor of the
Filipinas concerning the help which the king of Terrenate is giving
to the Mindanaos._

On the sea, off the tinguis ["hills"] of La Caldera, on the
twenty-ninth day of the month of May in the year one thousand six
hundred and two. The purveyor-general, Juan Juarez Gallinato. Whereas
Ensign Antonio de Alarcon, commander of the patrona, [54] took with
his galley from a vessel of Lutaos an Indian of San Buangan [_i.e._,
Zamboanga,] who is supposed to be a spy, I command, in order to learn
the truth and the design of the enemy, that his confession be taken;
and so I order it and sign my name.

_Juan Juarez Gallinato_

By his order:

_Rafael de Sarria_, notary

_Deposition_. Then on the day, month, and year aforesaid, the
purveyor-general caused to appear before him the said Lutao, who was
questioned by the interpreter Pedro Navarro, encomendero of Canamucan
an