1579 a 1697; est. 68, caj. 1, leg. 32."

_Royal letters_, 1630.--The second of these is in "Audiencia
de Filipinas; registro de oficio, reales ordenes dirigidas a las
autoridades del distrito de la Audiencia; anos 1597 a 1634; est. 105,
caj. 2, leg. 1." The others are found in the Archivo Historico
Nacional, as noted below.

The following documents are obtained from the "Cedulario Indico"
of the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid:

8. _Royal letters, 1630._--The first and third of these are in tomo
40, fol. 71 verso and 76 verso respectively.

9. _Royal orders, 1632-33._--The first is in tomo 40, fol. 86 verso,
no. 99; the second is in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla,
the same as No. 7; the third, in tomo 31, fol. 145 verso.

The following documents are obtained from MSS. in the Academia Real
de la Historia, Madrid, in the collection "Papeles de los Jesuitas:"

10. _Events in Filipinas, 1630-32._--In tomo 84, no. 15; the additional
paragraph is from another copy of this document in the same collection,
in tomo 114, no. 401.

11. _News from Far East._--In tomo 114, no. 587 (copied from a pamphlet
printed at Sevilla in 1633).

12. _News from Felipinas, 1634._--In tomo 146, no. 113.

NOTES

[1] See _Vol. VIII_, p. 217, note 32; also _Vol. XIII_, p. 292,
note 39.

[2] Fray Juan de Montesdoca went to Mexico with his parents who gave
him a good education. He professed in the Augustinian convent in 1575,
and went to the Philippines in 1582. He quickly mastered the Pampanga
dialect, and ministered in the villages of Bacolor (1590), Mexico
(1593), and Macabebe (1596). He was elected subprior and procurator
of the Manila convent in 1594, provincial secretary in 1597, and
prior provincial in 1599. He was missionary at Apalit in 1602, and
prior of Guadalupe in 1605. He died at Malate in 1612, having gone
thither in 1608. See Perez's _Catalogo_, pp. 30, 31.

[3] Fray Mateo Mendoza, born of noble stock, was intended for
the profession of arms. Having gone to the Philippines, he was
received into the Augustinian order at Manila in 1575. He was sent
to Mexico to receive holy orders, as there was then no bishop in the
islands. He was missionary at Malolos in 1580, Arevalo (in 1584),
San Pablos de los Montes (in 1586), and Porac (in 1594). Although
elected definitor-general in 1596, he resigned that office to go
to Japan. Returning to Manila in 1598, he became first definitor in
1599, and presided at the