Before me:
Juan Soriano
_Testimony._ In fulfilment of the above act, I, Juan Soriano,
notary-public, one of the registered notaries of this city of Manila,
in the Filipinas Islands, for the king our lord, attest and assert
truthfully to those who may see these presents that on this day of
the above date, at the hour of ten in the morning or thereabout, I,
in company with the said auditor-general, went to the gate of Santo
Domingo of this said city, where there is generally a guardhouse of
soldiers. I made an investigation among the persons near the said
gate, and asked them whether any of them were present at what is
contained in these records, and which happened at this gate last
night, which is reckoned the twenty-first of this month. No one was
found who could tell me anything about the aforesaid; and I gave the
present because of what is contained in the commandment of the said
auditor-general. Given in the city of Manila, November twenty-two,
one thousand six hundred and thirty-five. Witness, the said constable,
Francisco Gutierrez. I seal it in testimony of the truth,
Juan Soriano, notary-public.
_Act of accusation and proof_. In the city of Manila, November
twenty-two, one thousand six hundred and thirty-five, [14] Licentiate
Manuel Suarez de Olivera, auditor-general of the war department of
this royal camp, declared that having examined this complaint and
the verbal process and investigation of it, he would charge--and he
did charge--the said alferez Don Francisco de Rivera with what has
resulted against him from the said verbal process; and that he would
immediately receive--and he did receive--this suit and complaint and
the parties to it, for proof within the time-limit of the two days
next following, common to the said parties, with all responsibility of
publication and direction, and all the rest, with citation. Within that
time, they may prove and investigate whatever is expedient for them,
and be cited in due form for sentence. Thus did he enact and order,
and he signed the same; and the witnesses of the verbal process shall
be notified before the said auditor-general, etc.