Spanish form of the name of Mechlin, an important city of
Belgium, between Antwerp and Brussels. The reference in the text is
probably to some law enacted by the emperor Charles V while holding
his court at Mechlin, during his long stay in the Netherlands.

[8] Diego Aduarte was born at Zaragoza, about 1570, and at the age of
sixteen entered a Dominican convent at Alcala de Henares. In 1594 he
joined the mission to the Philippines, arriving at Manila June 12,
1595. In the following January Aduarte accompanied the expedition
sent by Luis Dasmarinas to Cambodia (see _Vol_. IX, pp. 161-180,
265, 277); the result of this was disastrous, and after many dangers
and hardships, and a long illness, he returned to Manila on June
24, 1597. Two years later he went to China, to rescue Dasmarinas
(stranded there after another unsuccessful expedition to Cambodia),
and remained until February, 1600. Soon afterward he went to Spain
on business of his order, arriving there in September, 1603. There
he obtained a reenforcement of missionaries for the Philippines,
arriving at the islands in August, 1606. He was again despatched to
Spain (July, 1607), where he remained until 1628; he then returned to
the Philippines with another missionary band. He was seen afterward
elected prior of the convent at Manila, and later became bishop of
Nueva Segovia; but exercised the latter office only a year and a half,
dying in the summer of 1636. Aduarte's _Historia de la provincia del
Sancto Rosario_ (Manila, 1640) is his chief work; we shall present it
in later volumes of this series. See biography of Aduarte in _Resena
biografica de los religiosos de la provincia del Santisimo Rosario
de Filipinas_ (Manila, 1891), pp. 148-172.

[9] Master (Latin _magister_, Spanish _maestro_): a title of honor
given to religious of venerable age or distinguished services; see
Du Cange, _s.vv. dominus ordinis, magister ordinis_.

[10] So in the MS., but apparently an error of _cuatro_ for _cinco_
("five"), as the evidence of this and the other documents of this
group indicates that this warrant was given in 1605, not 1604.

[11] The garment placed by the tribunal of the Inquisition upon persons
who, after trial, became penitent and were reconciled to the church.

[12] San Juan de Ulua (or Lua, also Ulloa), in Mexico, was thus named
(1518) for St. John and in honor of Juan Grijalva, one of Cortes's
officers, who in that year discovered Yucatan. In the summer of the