hem. Specific directions are given
for the manner in which the Audiencia shall audit the accounts of
the royal treasury, and it may not expend the moneys therein; it
shall also audit the accounts of estates in probate. Its members must
especially watch over the welfare of the conquered Indians--punishing
those who oppress them, and seeing that the natives receive religious
instruction, in which the Audiencia and the bishop shall cooperate;
and various specific directions are given for the protection of the
Indians and their interests. The duties of the officials subordinate to
the Audiencia--fiscal attorney, alguazils, clerks, jail-wardens, and
others--are carefully prescribed, as also are those of advocates. The
remainder of this document will be presented in _Vol_. VI.

_The Editors_
May, 1903.

DOCUMENTS OF 1582

Letter to Felipe II. Gonzalo Ronquillo de Penalosa; June 16.
[2]Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas. Miguel de Loarca; [June].
Letter to Felipe II. Fray Domingo de Salazar; June 20.
Letter to viceroy. Juan Baptista Roman; June 25.
Letter to Felipe II. Gonzalo Ronquillo de Penalosa; July 1.
Papal decrees regarding the Dominicans. Gregory XIII; September
15 and October 20.
Report on the offices saleable in the Philippines. [Unsigned;
1582?].

_Sources_: These documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo
general de Indias, Sevilla--excepting the papal decrees, which are
taken from Hernaez's _Coleccion de bulas_.

_Translations_: The first and third documents are translated by Jose
M. and Clara M. Asensio; the second, by Alfonso de Salvio, of Harvard
University, and Emma Helen Blair; the fourth, by Arthur B. Myrick,
of Harvard University; the fifth, by James A. Robertson; the sixth,
by Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A., of Villanova College; the seventh,
by Alfonso de Salvio.

LETTER FROM PENALOSA TO FELIPE II

Royal Catholic Majesty:

There has now returned one of the ships by which I wrote in the year
80. Until now no word has been received of the other ship to Nueva
Espana, in which I sent a duplicate report. Therefore in this letter I
shall refer to some of the most essential points which I had written,
and will give a report also of what is presented for the first time.

This country is advancing rapidly in the conversion of the natives,
and they are quick to embrace baptism and the knowledge of our
holy faith. If the harvest is not grea