rcetas_
_Don Alonso Garcia de Leon_
_Doctor Don Juan Reyes_
The treasurer, _Don Thomas Guimarano_
_Don Francisco de Valdes_
_Don Pedro de Quesada Hurtado de Mendoza_
The racionero, _Pablo Rodriguez_
The racionero, _Ruiz de Escalona_
_Diego Ramirez_

[_Endorsed_: "Manila. To his Majesty. The ecclesiastical cabildo. No
date. Examined July 30, and decreed within."]

DOCUMENTS OF 1633-1634

Papal bull concerning missions. Urban VIII; June 28, 1633.
News from the Far East, 1632. Fray Juan Garcia, O.P.; 1633.
Letters to Felipe IV. Juan Cerezo de Salamanca; August 14,
1633.
Report of archbishop on the bakery of Manila. Hernando de
Guerrero; August 3, 1634.
News from Felipinas, Japon, and other parts. [Unsigned];
August 20, 1634.
Letters to Felipe IV. Juan Cerezo de Salamanca; August 10,
1634.

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

_Translations_: The first document is translated by
Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.; the third and sixth, by James
A. Robertson; the remainder, by Robert W. Haight.

PAPAL BULL CONCERNING MISSIONS

_Constitution of our most holy lord, by divine Providence pope,
Urban VIII, concerning the missions of religious to Japan and other
regions of the Eastern Indias. Rome: from the press of the reverend
Apostolic Chamber. MDCXX[X]III._

_Urban VIII_

To all the faithful of Christ who shall scan these present letters,
health and apostolic benediction. In fulfilment of our pastoral charge
in regard to the safety of souls and the spread of the Catholic faith,
while readily changing those things which have been wisely, ordained
by the Roman pontiffs our predecessors, wherever through the teachings
of experience change seems advisable, we have made some arrangements,
as the same have seemed expedient in the Lord, in regard to the spread
of the Catholic faith and the health of souls.

In sooth, by his letters in form similar to a brief given on the
twenty-eighth day of January, 1585, and the thirteenth year of his
pontificate, Pope Gregory XIII, our predecessor of happy memory,
led thereto through certain reasons known at the time, issued an
interdict and prohibition to all patriarchs and bishops, including
even the province of China and Japan, under pain of ecc