ch is in possession
of Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, governor and captain-general
of these islands. At his order I drew this copy. Manila, October
seventeen, one thousand six hundred and thirty-five; witnesses being
Simon Delgado, and Alferez Pedro de Arexita. In testimony of truth,
I sealed and signed it.
Andres Martin del Arroyo,
notary of the royal crown.
We, the undersigned notaries, attest that Andres Martin del Arroyo,
by whom this testimony appears to be signed and sealed, is a royal
notary; and, as such, entire faith and credit has been and is given,
in and out of court, to the writings, acts, and other papers, which
have passed, and pass, before him. So that that may be evident, we
give the present. Manila, June eighteen, one thousand six hundred
and thirty-six.
Augusto de Valenzuelo, notary-public.
Francisco de Rueda, royal notary.
Sebastian Damas, notary of the assembly.
[The order presented to the governor by the commissary of the
Inquisition, Francisco de Herrera, November 26, 1635, and already
presented in Vol. XXV, pp. 243-244, follows. In the present document,
it is followed by the attestation of the notary, Andres del Arroyo
(dated April 26, 1636), who made the present copy from the original
presented to the governor by the commissary. Following his attestation
is one by the three notaries, Baptista de Espinosa, Alonso Baeza del
Rio, and Francisco de Casares, attesting the copy of Arroyo.]
In the city of Manila, April two, one thousand six hundred and
thirty-six, Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, knight of the Order
of Alcantara, member of his Majesty's Council, his governor and
captain-general of these Philipinas Islands, and president of the
royal Audiencia therein, declared that Licentiate Manuel Suarez de
Olivera entered a complaint against Alferez Don Francisco de Rivera,
the corporal of the soldiers of the guard at the gate of Santo Domingo,
for having allowed Licentiate Don Pedro de Monrroy to enter this
city, contrary to the order of his Lordship; and because it appeared
that the said Don Pedro, accompanied by other persons and disguised
in the habit of a Franciscan friar, entered through the said gate,
although the said corporal recognized and stopped him and obstructed
his entrance, calling the guard. But the said Don Pedro forced his way
through the guard violently, and entered the convent of St. Dominic,
of this city. For that reason the said corporal and the sol
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