you say exists in that country.

I thank you for the care which you have taken of the seminary of
Santa Potenciana, and that its inmates should live in due seclusion;
and I have been pleased to hear that you should make efforts to have
me send orders to the viceroy of Nueva Espana to send some religious
women thither for the improvement of the seminary.

It will be well if you have my royal arms placed on the houses of
the cabildo of that city, as you say that you will do. Ventosilla,
November 4, 1606.

_I The King_
By order of the king our sovereign:
_Juan de Ziviza_

DOCUMENTS OF 1607

Petition for a grant to the Jesuit seminary in Leyte. January 18.
Artillery at Manila in 1607. Alonso de Biebengud; July 6.
Letter from the Audiencia to Felipe III, on the Confraternity of
La Misericordia. Pedro Hurtado de Esquivel; July 11.
Trade of the Philippines with Mexico. December 18.
Passage of missionaries via the Philippines to Japan. Conde de
Lemos, and others; 1606-07.

_Sources_: The first three of these documents are obtained from the
Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the last two, from the Archivo
general at Simancas.

_Translations_: The first document, and the third paper in the fifth,
are translated by James A. Robertson; the second and third, by Henry
B. Lathrop, of the University of Wisconsin; the second paper of
the fifth, by Norman F. Hall, of Harvard University; the remainder,
by Robert W. Haight.

Petition for Grant to the Jesuit Seminary in Leyte

Sire:

The religious of the Society of Jesus of the Philipinas Islands,
considering that that country was so new, and that it was advisable
that the Indians be reared from its beginning in good customs and
Christian civilization, founded a seminary in the island of Leyte,
located in the province of Pintados. There they instruct the native
children of the island in good customs and in the matters of our holy
Catholic faith, and teach them to speak Spanish, and other things
which conduce to virtue. Inasmuch as the governor of the said islands
was made cognizant of the above, he ordered in the year 601 that one
hundred pesos of common gold and two hundred fanegas of unwinnowed
rice be given the said religious annually for four years, for the
support of the said seminary, to be taken from the fund of the fourths
[_i.e.,_ fourths of the tributes] of the city of Manila--provided
that the Jesuits could obtain a