and this country has no benefices
or other ecclesiastical incomes from which he might be supported. We
beseech that your Majesty be pleased to order some recompense to be
given him, since he so well deserves it. This will be a very signal
favor and kindness to this city. Sacred royal Catholic Majesty,
your Majesty's servants and vassals.

Andres de Villanueva
Don Antonio Sufre Carrillo
Andres Cabchela
Don Francisco de Poca y Guevara
Juan de Moron
Juan Maldonado del Castillo
Juan Baptista Roman
Rodriguez Albarez
Francisco RroS
Hernando Nunez de Pyatos
Luis de Bivanco
Hernando Vergara

Letter from Antonio Sedeno to Felipe II

I.H.S.

Sacred Royal Catholic Majesty:

It is five or six years since the Society, at your Majesty's orders,
sent me to these Philippinas Islands, together with some fathers and
brethren. In these islands we have endeavored, during all this time, to
attend to the needs and welfare of the country, in the service of God,
and, with especial care and effect, in that of your Majesty. Besides
ordinary occasions, two noteworthy cases have arisen in the course
of these years, beyond, these islands and in China, in which we
have lent our aid by order of your Majesty's governors, the bishop,
and the chief personages of these islands, by sending Father Alonso
Sanchez-of whom your Majesty has notice already--the first time to
reduce to your obedience the Portuguese of those regions. This he
accomplished with the success and skill of which your Majesty will have
heard, and with many hardships--both in China, and Macan, and in his
voyaging--as your Majesty will have learned by his relations. On the
second occasion he was sent, by the same order, to reduce a vessel,
which had mutinied in China, which he accomplished also so well,
that the factor, who was going with the warrants, confesses that
without him he could have done nothing, because of the mettle of
the Portuguese, and the daring with which those of the vessel had
closed with them. In this case there would surely have been many
disorders and deaths, if the said father, by his care and prudence,
and the authority that he enjoys among all, had not appeased them,
and reduced both of them. In this, and in a year of contrary weather
on strange seas and land, he suffered the hardships and dangers of
which, likewise, your Majesty has been informed.

Since his return, in this last year of his stay here, your president
and auditors, and the