pinions of the religious orders_.--"Simancas--Secular; Cartas
y expedientes del presidente y oidores de dicha Audiencia vistos en
el Consejo; anos 1583 a 1599; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 18."

8. _Letters from Dasmarinas_ (1592); also all the remaining documents
of that year.--The same as No. 7.

9. _Letter from Felipe II_ (1593).--"Audiencia de Filipinas; registros
de oficio y partes: reales ordenes dirigidas a las autoridades y
particulares del distrito de la Audiencia; anos de 1568 a 1605;
est. 105, caj. 2, leg. 11."

10. _Two royal decrees_.--(1) Is a part of No. 9; (2) The same as
No. 6.

NOTES

[1] Referring to the _Historia natural y moral de las Indias_
(Sevilla, 1590) of Joseph de Acosta (1540-1600), a noted Jesuit
writer. Markham's translation of this interesting work forms nos. 60
and 61 of the Hakluyt Society's publications (London, 1880).

[2] Evidently a reference to the convent of the Augustinians.

[3] Spanish _obispo de anillo_, literally, "bishop with a ring;"
the same as a bishop _in partibus infidelium_. This means a titular
bishop of the Roman Catholic church whose territory is occupied by
infidels, so that he cannot reside there.

[4] Spanish _vinas_; here used metaphorically, since the natives
then obtained their wine from the palm-tree, and from rice, etc. See
_Vol_. III, p. 202; iv, p. 67; and V, p. 169. Cf. U.S. Philippine
Commission's _Report_ (1900), iii, pp. 264-266.

[5] The allusion to this document which appears in section 8 of
Dasmarinas's letter to the king of June 20, 1591, which immediately
follows this, shows that it was prepared by his order, to accompany
the letter.

[6] Spanish _puente_, in Retana's text; apparently an error for some
other word referring to the priest at Tabuco.

[7] Evidently referring to the petition which appears in _Vol_. VII,
p. 301.

[8] The university of Salamanca was founded in the twelfth or
thirteenth century. The city of Salamanca, although it contains
beautiful churches, owes its fame chiefly to the university. The
studies were divided into the greater schools, or university proper,
and the lesser schools, or colleges. In 1569 it had the following
chairs: canonical law, ten; theology, seven; medicine, seven; logic and
philosophy, eleven; astronomy, one; music, one; Hebrew and Chaldean,
two; Greek, four; rhetoric and grammar, seventeen. It was among the
very first universities to teach the sciences.

The university of Alcala was