amp. I beg also that careful
attention be given in the other things.

The gratuity for the expenses incurred in these necessary undertakings
and for others similar to them, which are thrusting themselves forward
every moment--which was provided by your Majesty's auditors of your
royal Audiencia of Mexico in the ship arriving at this bay on the
twenty-fourth of last month, consisted of a decree and warrant in
which they order that Doctor Sande be paid here for the time while he
remained here after my arrival, and until his arrival at Mexico. For
this purpose they set aside in their decree the tributes which belong
to your Majesty, and order that they be attached for this and sent
to them--threatening me with imprisonment if I do not comply. I have
written to your Majesty already of the poor state of your treasury
here and its many pressing necessities, and of the extreme difficulty
experienced in raising the amount needful for the same. Will your
Majesty please take suitable action in this? for without the aid
of what little resources your Majesty possesses here, this colony
cannot be preserved. May our Lord guard the Catholic and royal person
of your Majesty for mary prosperous years, and give you increase of
many kingdoms and seigniories for the good of Christianity. Manila,
July first, 82.

[_Endorsed:_ "To the royal Catholic Majesty, King Don Phelipe, our
sovereign, through his royal council of the Indies. Governor of the
Philipinas."]

TWO PAPAL DECREES

Indulgence Granted to the Dominicans on Their Setting Out for the
Philippines

Gregory, Bishop, servant of the servants of God: In perpetual
remembrance of the affair.

Since, as we have learned, very vast kingdoms, islands, cities, and
towns in the parts of the Western Indias are being converted to the
faith of Christ, and daily the light of heavenly learning is beaming on
the peoples thereof--who, hitherto unacquainted with the law of God,
and under the yoke of the demon, were groping their way in the dark
places of unbelief; but now, rejecting the errors of heathenism, are
revering and following the name of our Savior Jesus Christ: therefore
our beloved son, the master-general of the Order of Preachers [21]
[Dominicans], has determined to send thither professed members under
the care of their own vicar, with rules for austere life and a reformed
standard of conduct--as is becoming to a religious and praiseworthy
institute, and according to wh