and
six hundred and twenty-three.

Don Alonso Faxardo de Tenza
Doctor Don Alvaro de Mesa y Lugo
Licentiate Don Juan de Saavedra Valderrama

I, Pedro Munoz de Herrera, who exercise the office of notary of the
assembly of the royal Audiencia and Chancilleria of these Filipinas
Islands, caused this to be written by order of the king our sovereign,
by the resolution of the president and auditors of that body.

Don Juan Sarmiento
Chancellor of Don Juan Sarmiento [19]

This copy is collated with the original royal decree, which is in
the possession of Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, governor and
captain-general of these Philipinas Islands. By order of his Lordship,
I drew this copy at Manila, October seventeen, one thousand six hundred
and thirty-five. Witnesses, Simon Delgado and the accountant, Juan
Bautista de Zubiaga. In testimony of truth, I sealed and signed it.

Andres Martin de Arroyo,
notary of the royal crown.

We, the undersigned notaries of the king our sovereign, attest that
Andres Martin del Arroyo, by whom this copy appears to be sealed and
signed, is such royal notary as he has called himself therein. To
the writings and acts that have passed, and pass, before him, entire
credit has been and is given, in and out of court. So that this may
appear, we affix our signatures. Given at Manila, June eighteen,
one thousand six hundred and thirty-six.

Augustin de Valenzuela, notary-public.
Francisco de Rueda, royal notary.
Sebastian Damas, notary of the assembly.

[The act of the commissary of the Inquisition, dated November 26, 1635,
presented to the governor and concerning the libelous protest issued
by the archbishop and religious (_q.v._, Vol. XXV, pp. 243-244); and
the records of the trial and acquittal of Francisco de Rivera _q.v.,
ante_, pp. 73-86, taken in part from the present document) follow.]

_Act, and head of the process for Captain Juan Dominguez, the
pilot._ In the port of Cavite, December twenty-two, one thousand
six hundred and thirty-five, General Don Andres Pacheco de Tholedo,
lieutenant-governor and captain-general, castellan and chief justice
in this said fort for his Majesty, declared that inasmuch as it has
come to his notice that Captain Juan Dominguez, who is captain of
a company of marine infantry and pilot-in-chief of these islands,
has attempted to absent himself from them, and to go in a champan to
the kingdoms of Castilla by way of Yndia, without permissi