Him?" Finally,
he promised five hundred pesos. The most Holy Child beheld their
devotion, and miraculously saved them from their danger and conveyed
them safe to Sugbu, where they fulfilled their vow. And it is a fact
that although they were persons of great wealth of spirit and nobility,
they are people who have less of the temporal. But what they possess is
greater, which, at the end, will be a pledge of their reaching heaven.

[Father Medina's editor, Father Coco, follows the narrative with
a list of the Augustinian provincials in the Philippines from
1632-1893--eighty-two in all.]

DOCUMENTS OF 1630-1633

Royal letters and decree. Felipe IV; December 4-31, 1630.
Letter to Felipe IV from the bishop of Cebu. Pedro de Arce;
July 31, 1631.
Royal orders, 1632-33. Felipe IV; January-March, 1632, and
March, 1633.
Letters to Felipe IV. Juan Nino de Tavora; July 8, 1632.
Events in Filipinas, 1630-32. [Unsigned]; July 2, 1632.
Letter from the ecclesiastical cabildo to Felipe IV. Miguel
Garcetas, and others; [undated, but 1632].

_Sources_: The first and third documents are obtained from MSS. in the
Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; the second, fourth, and sixth,
from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the fifth,
from a MS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid.

_Translations_: The fifth document, and the first letter each in the
first and the third, are translated by Robert W. Haight; the remainder,
by James A. Robertson.

ROYAL LETTERS AND DECREE

_Letter to Tavora_

The King. To Don Juan Nino de Tavora, my governor and captain-general
of the Filipinas Islands, and president of my royal Audiencia which
sits there. Your letter of August 4, 628, which treats of matters
concerning the exchequer, has been received and examined in my royal
Council of the Yndias, and this will be your answer.

As to what you say that it is not expedient to continue the custom
introduced under the governorship of Don Juan de Silva, namely, that
the officials of my royal exchequer in those islands should not make
payments without your order--considering that they have not half the
money which is needed, and that it will be necessary to set limits
to the payments, so that they may be made only in the most necessary
cases--you will observe the order which you have for this matter,
taking care that the payments made be entirely justified.

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