t remains in this position.

Seeing that I did not find any property of the said Don Francisco
Tello with which to fulfil the aforesaid commission, and hearing that
he had some property which he kept secret, I asked for and received
letters of excommunication and censure against those who might know
of property belonging to the said Don Francisco Tello, in order that
they should make it known. They opposed this, and tried to delay it
as much as possible; but nevertheless it was ordered that the three
letters should be given. They appealed from this, and menaced me with
the aid of fuerza [61]--with the result that until the sixth of this
month the last letter could not be read, so that the examination of
the depositions that were taken has been delayed. According to them,
it appears that he has no property of any account in these islands,
but that what he has is in Nueva Espana; and whatever I have been able
to hear of I give notice to the viceroy of that country to attach,
because the ships are about to sail, and the governor is in Cavite,
and I cannot get a warrant for it. God keep the Catholic person of
your Majesty, according to His power. From Manila, on the tenth of
July of the year 1602.

The licentiate _Hieronimo de Salazar y Salzedo_

[_Endorsed_: "Examined on the second of July, 1604. Let it be put with
another from the royal officials of Philipinas, of July 18, 1603."]

Bibliographical Data

All documents in this volume save two are obtained from the original
MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; and their pressmarks
therein are indicated as follows:

1. _Ordinances of the Audiencia_ (concluded).--See _Vol_. X, No. 15.

2. _Hospital for Indians._--"Simancas-Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas;
cartas y expedientes de personas seculares, vistos en el Consejo;
anos 1595 a 1606; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 35."

3. _Letters from the fiscal, 1599._--"Simancas-Secular; Audiencia
de Filipinas; cartas y espedientes del presidente y oidores de dicha
audiencia vistos en el Consejo; anos de 1583 a 1600; est. 67, caj. 6,
leg. 18."

4. _Letter from king of Borneo._--The same as No. 3, save that the
dates read, "1583 a 1599."

5. _Letters from Telia._--"Simancas-Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas;
cartas y expedientes del gobernador de Filipinas vistos en el Consejo;
anos de 1567 a 1599; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 6."

6. _Letters from Felipe III._--The first one: "Simancas-Filipinas;
cartas y espedientes