decree in which your Majesty should
give your consent to this grant. On behalf of the said religious it
has been represented that excellent results have been attained from
the foundation of the said seminary, which still continue; and that
it is advisable that it be maintained. They entreat your Majesty
to consider the matter, and have the above-mentioned gift approved,
and the said alms continued to them for ten years more; for otherwise
it cannot take effect. Having examined this in the Council, we think
that, because of the great need for the said seminary in that country,
the provision of the governor for a grant to them for four years may be
confirmed; and, in order that the seminary be preserved and continued,
that the concession of the said one hundred pesos of common gold and
the two hundred fanegas of rice, taken from the fund of the fourths,
may be made for ten years more, as they petition. The governor should
be ordered to have it all very carefully distributed for the said
purpose, and give advice thereof. Your Majesty will order as suits
your pleasure. Madrid, January 18, 1607.

[Four signatures follow.]

Artillery at Manila in 1607

_Memorandum of All the Artillery in the Fortifications of Manila,
June_ 20, 1607

_Fort of Santiago_

One half-culverin, old casting of Manila, choke-bored, caliber fourteen
libras, twenty calibers in length.

One full-sized saker of the same casting, caliber ten libras, length
thirteen calibers.

Another of the same casting, a paterero, [37] caliber eleven libras,
length fourteen calibers.

Another paterero of the same casting, caliber ten libras, and thirteen
calibers in length.

Two bastards, casting Mexican--one of twenty-seven calibers, and the
other choke-bored--of twenty-four calibers, caliber ten libras.

One saker, old Manila casting, caliber six libras, length thirty
calibers.

One culverin, caliber nineteen libras, old Manila casting, choke-bored,
twenty-nine calibers in length.

One demi-saker, Mexican casting, caliber three and a half libras,
length thirty-two calibers.

One bastard saker, Genoese casting, caliber six libras, length
twenty-four calibers.

One paterero, Portuguese casting, caliber eleven libras, length
fourteen calibers.

One demi-saker, cast in Piru, caliber three and a half libras, length
twenty-nine calibers.

One saker, caliber six libras, cast in Flandes, thirty calibers
in length.

Another saker, cast in Mexico,