5. _Religious estate in Philippines._--San Antonio's _Chronicas_
(Manila, 1738), i, book i, pp. 172-175, 190-210, 214-216, 219, 220,
223-226.

6. _Religious condition of islands._--Delgado's _Historia general_
(Manila, 1892), pp. 140-158, 184-188.

7. _Ecclesiastical survey of Philippines._--Le Gentil's _Voyages
dans les mers de l'Inde_ (Paris, 1781), pp. 170-191, 59-63.

8. _Character and influence of friars._--Mas's _Informe sobre el
estado de las Islas Filipinas en 1842_ (Madrid, 1843), vol. ii.

9. _Ecclesiastical system in the Philippines._--Buzeta and Bravo's
_Diccionario de las Islas Filipinas_ (Madrid, 1850), ii, pp. 271-275,
363-367.

10. _Character and influence of friars._--Jagor's _Reisen in den
Philippinen_ (Berlin, 1873), pp. 94-100.

11. _Augustinian Recollects.--Provincia de San Nicolas de Tolentino
de Agustinos descalzos_ (Manila, 1879).

12. _Present condition of religion.--Archipielago filipino_
(Washington, 1900), ii, pp. 256-267.

NOTES

[1] As Gregory died in 1623, the despatch of this letter must have
been long delayed at Rome or en route.

[2] See chapter xlii of Medina's history of the Augustinian order,
in VOL. XXIV of this series; also Diaz's _Conquistas_, pp. 384-386.

[3] This was the archdeacon Alonso Garcia de Leon.

[4] Pedro de Arce (himself an Augustinian), who twice filled vacancies
in the archiepiscopal see of Manila.

[5] It is curious that Diaz does not mention this; but he states
(_Conquistas_, p. 385) something omitted here--that Archbishop Garcia
Serrano interfered in like manner with the judge-executor of 1629 in
this case, Garcia de Leon. Diaz may have given wrong names and dates
for the one incident.

[6] This was the new archdeacon, Andres Arias Xiron (Diaz's
_Conquistas_, p. 385).

[7] Presumably Pedro de Ribadeneira, a Spaniard of Toledo; he
was provincial of Castilla, and assistant to the general of the
order. About 1635 he was sent by Felipe IV as his ambassador to the
duke of Modena and the republic of Lucca; afterward he was named
by the king bishop of Cotrone (the ancient Crotona), Italy, but
declined this honor. He died on August 20, 1643; and left various
writings.--Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.

[8] There is frequent mention in canon law of _alternativa_
decrees by the Holy See--a device in the interests of fairness,
applied in the conferral of benefices and church offices, in order
to do away with discords and displays of partisa