ed and brought forward touching the matter;
but to all he answered that which he has declared as above, under
obligation of the oath that he has sworn. He affixed his signature,
together with the auditor-general.

Licentiate Manuel Suarez de Olivera
Don Francisco de Rivera y Oseguera

Before me:
Juan Soriano, notary-public.

[The following is contained in the documents enclosed, in another
letter of like date with the above letter (also by Corcuera to the
king, and which will be given, _post_), and gives details omitted by
the present document.]

_Act._ In the city of Manila, November twenty-two, one thousand
six hundred and thirty-five, Licentiate Manuel Suarez de Olivera,
auditor-general of the war department of this royal camp, declared that
it is advisable, for the greater justification of this complaint, to
make investigation among the persons who were about the guardhouse at
the gate of Santo Domingo of this city, in order to ascertain and find
out more fully what happened last night at the said gate, by examining
more of the witnesses who were present or who knew something of the
aforesaid; and that the present notary should record the results
as a testimony in this cause, so that it might be apparent for all
time. Thus did he enact and order, and he signed the same.

Licentiate Manuel Suarez de Olivera

Before me:
Juan Soriano

_Testimony._ In fulfilment of the above act, I, Juan Soriano,
notary-public, one of the registered notaries of this city of Manila,
in the Filipinas Islands, for the king our lord, attest and assert
truthfully to those who may see these presents that on this day of
the above date, at the hour of ten in the morning or thereabout, I,
in company with the said auditor-general, went to the gate of Santo
Domingo of this said city, where there is generally a guardhouse of
soldiers. I made an investigation among the persons near the said
gate, and asked them whether any of them were present at what is
contained in these records, and which happened at this gate last
night, which is reckoned the twenty-first of this month. No one was
found who could tell me anything about the aforesaid; and I gave the
present because of what is contained in the commandment of the said
auditor-general. Given in the city of Manila, November twenty-two,
one thousand six hundred and thirty-five. Witness, the said constable,
Francisco Gutierrez. I seal it in testimony of the truth,

Juan Soriano, no