resolved to send a person to his Majesty; and all appointed Father Alonso Sanchez; August [sic; but should be April] 19, in the year 86.2: On the fifth of May, 86, the royal Audiencia of Manila appointed Father Alonso Sanchez as envoy.3: On the twentieth of June, 86, the bishop and cathedral of the city of Manila appointed the same.4: On the sixteenth of April, 86, the bishop and the superiors of the religious appointed the same.5: On the 25th of June, 86, the judiciary, magistracy, and cabildo of Manila appointed the same.6: On the twenty-eighth of May, the master-of-camp and the captains of the Filipinas Islands appointed the same."
Then follows a list of letters and other documents accompanying the "Memorial," several of which are presented in our text. On the right hand is written: "Filipinas Islands, city of Manila, assembly of April 19, 1586. Royal Audiencia, judiciary, and magistracy. Bishop and clergy. Orders, and religious and ecclesiastical estate. The master-of-camp, captains, and soldiers, and the secular estate. The person who should come: Father Sanchez." Other memoranda refer to various letters from Philippine officials, dated during the years 1583-86, which seem to have been consulted in reference to the "Memorial."]
[In the library of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago, is a collection of MSS., transcripts from documents in Spanish archives, which were made during the years 1859-65 by a Spanish official at Madrid, who had been in the Philippine Islands, named Ventura del Arco: it has been kindly loaned to us by Mr. Ayer for use in the present work. This series, in five volumes, large octavo size, contains some 3,000 pages of
