592, but soon
afterward was partially regained by the Chinese (_Vol_. VIII,
pp. 260-262; IX, pp. 36, 44, 46). The death of the Japanese ruler
Hideyoshi (1598), and the consequent recall of the Japanese troops,
left affairs between the three countries unsettled; finally Iyeyasu,
ruler of Japan, made peace with Korea and China, in 1605.

[26] Another account of this insurrection is given by Gregorio Lopez,
S.J., in a letter dated April, 1604; it is substantially the same
as those already presented in this series, but Lopez relates in much
fuller detail the final pursuit of the Sangleys. He also states that
the Chinese Juan Bautista de Bera (Vera), whose heathen name was
Hincan, had lived in Manila since the time of Limahon; and that in
the conflict there were twenty stalwart Sangleys to each Spaniard. He
enumerates the Spanish citizens slain by the Sangleys, mentioning
the place where each died. A copy of this letter is contained in the
Ventura del Acro MSS. (Ayer library)--for account of which collection
see _Vol_. VI, pp. 231, 232--in vol. i, pp. 121-272; it is accompanied
by the statement that the original MS. is in the Real Academia de lit
Historia, Madrid--its pressmark, "Jesuitas, Filipinas; legajo no. 7."

[27] _Recopilacion de leyes_, lib. vi, tit. vi, ley viii, contains
the following law in regard to the appointment of the protector of
the Indians; "The bishops of Filipinas were charged by us with the
protection and defense of those Indians. Having seen that they cannot
attend to the importunity, and judicial acts and investigations, which
require personal presence, we order the president-governors to appoint
a protector and defender, and to assign him a competent salary from the
taxes of the Indians, proportioned among those which shall be assigned
to our royal crown and to private persons, without touching our royal
treasury, which proceeds from other kinds [of taxes]. We declare
that it is not our intention by this to deprive the bishops of their
superintendence and protection of the Indians in general." (Felipe II,
Madrid, January 17, 1593, in a clause of a letter).

[28] The hospital order of St John of God was originally founded by a
Portuguese soldier (named Joan), who at the age of forty years devoted
himself, as a religious duty, to the care of sick persons. He began a
hospital in his own house at Granada (1540), and his bishop permitted
him and his associates to wear a habit. After his death (1550) si