[The letter is followed by the appended documents:]
[The act of October 9, 1635, directed against the Society of Jesus,
which will be found in the "Letter written by a citizen of Manila,"
Vol. XXV, pp. 216-219. In the present document, the act is followed
by the following:]
Collated with the original records which are in possession of his
Excellency, and which I attest. Manila, October ten, one thousand
six hundred and thirty-five.
The bachelor Joan Fulgencio, notary.
This copy was collated with the copy of the original which is
authenticated by the bachelor, Joan Fulgencio, notary of the archbishop
of these islands, Don Fray Hernando Guerrero, which 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 soldiers with
him were not condemned. And in order that his Majesty may know what
happened in this matter, and order his pleasure, the governor ordered
Juan Soriano, notary-public, before whom the said complaint was made,
to give two or three authorized copies of it. Thus did he enact and
order, and he affixed his signature.
Before me:
Francisco de Ortega
_Head of the process._ In the city of Manila, November twenty-one,
one thousand six hundred and thirty-five, Licentiate Manuel Suarez
de Olivera, auditor-general of war, declared that it had come to
his notice that although the governor and captain-general of these
islands had ordered that no corporal at the gates of the city should
allow Licentiate Don Pedro de Monrroy to enter this city, Alferez Don
Francisco de Rivera, corporal at the gate of Santo Domingo, with three
soldiers had allowed him to enter into the said city contrary to the
said order. In order that he might chastise the aforesaid corporal
and the others who appeared to be guilty, the auditor ordered the said
complaint to be entered, with a process according to military usage,
and that the witnesses should be examined according to the tenor of
it. Thus did he enact, and he affixed his signature.