ing the question
of Macan; for Domingo de Uribe."]

Documents of 1592

Opinions of the religious communities on the war with the
Zambales. Juan de Valderrama, and others; January 19-20.
Letter of congratulation to the bishop, clergy, and people
of the Philippines. Clement VIII; March 25.
Letter to Felipe II. G.P. Dasmarinas; May 31.
Rules for the Manila hospital. G.P. Dasmarinas; [May 31].
Expedition to Tuy. [Luis Perez Dasmarinas]; June 1.
Two letters to Felipe II. G.P. Dasmarinas; June 6, 11.
An embassy from Japan. Hideyoshi, and others; 1591-92.
Three letters to Felipe II. G.P. Dasmarinas; June 20, July 6.
Luzon menaced by Japanese. [G.P. Dasmarinas; 1592?].

_Sources_: All these documents are obtained from original MSS. in
the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

_Translations_: In the first document, the opinion of the Augustinians
is translated by Joseph Fitzgerald; that of the Franciscans, by
Victoria G. Peacock; the remainder, by James A. Robertson. The second
document is translated by Rev. T.C. Middleton, O.S.A., Villanova
College; the third, by Jose M. and Clara M. Asensio. In the eighth
document, the first letter is translated by Helen E. Thomas; the
third, by Mary F. Foster. The remaining documents of this group are
translated by James A. Robertson.

Opinions of the Religious Communities upon Waging War with the Zambales

Opinion of the Augustinians

Your Lordship orders us to give our judgment whether it be lawful
to make war on the Zambales, in view of the many injuries that they
have been and daily are inflicting upon our people; and, if so be
that the war is lawful and righteous, what measures may be taken to
attain the end proposed therein, security.

In reply to this we say that, according to all the authorities,
divines as well as canonists and jurists, three conditions are required
in a war to make it a righteous one; and on these we will rest the
justification of the war at present under consideration.

The first condition is that he who begins the war shall have authority;
the second, just cause for making war; and third, righteous intention.

The first requires that he who begins the war and by whose order it is
waged be a public person, as St Augustine declares, _Contra Faustum
Manichaeum_; cited by Gratian (23 qu. I. c. _Quid culpatur_): _Ordo
naturalis mortalium paci accommodatus hoc poscit, ut susctpiendi
belli authoritas atque consilium penes pri