iety of Jesus and the other said orders,
provinces and regions); no matter whether confirmed by apostolic pledge
or otherwise by statute, custom, privilege, or apostolic indult and
letters, even those granted by the pontiffs in the fulness of their
power, be the same general or special--all which, in so far as they
conflict with these our present letters, prohibition, and interdict,
wherefore they are to be considered as having been duly expressed and
inserted therein, we hereby desire and command shall be invoked in
favor of no one, no matter of what order, even though of the Society of
Jesus, but be held as null and void. And since it would be difficult
to have these present letters exhibited and published in all places,
we desire that to all copies of them (even in print), whenever the
same be certified to by any public notary, or the secretary of any of
the said orders, and attested with his seal by any church dignitary,
or the generals of the aforesaid orders, the same respect be accorded
in court, or outside, as would be given to these presents were they
themselves to be exhibited or shown. Given at Rome at St. Peter's,
under the seal of the Fisherman, the twenty-second day of February,
1632, and the tenth year of our pontificate.

_M. A. Maraldi_

We, Caesar Montius, by the grace of God and the apostolic see patriarch
of Antioch, nuncio of our most holy lord Urban VIII, by divine
Providence pope, with power of legate _a latere_ of the same see in
the kingdoms of the Spains, and collector-general for the apostolic
chamber, to all and singular who shall view and see as well as hear
these present letters, hereby do attest and in the word of truth do
vouch that this present copy of the same agrees with the original in
every respect. Wherefore we command that to it full regard be shown. In
testimony whereof we have sealed these presents, signed by our own
hand, and have ordered the same to be issued by our secretary. Maduti,
of the diocese of Ysleta, the twenty-eighth day of June, 1633.

By order of the same most illustrious lord:

_D. Francisco Gutierrez Corrilla_, secretary.

NEWS FROM THE FAR EAST, 1632

_Information which has been sent from the city of Manila of the present
condition of the Catholic religion in Philipinas, Japon, and Great
China; sent by father Fray Juan Garcia, [100] professed religious
of the Order of St. Dominic, to the royal convent of San Pablo at
Sevilla. Account of how th