_Gomez Perez Dasmarinas_
[_Addressed_: "To the king, our sovereign."]
[_Endorsed:_ "To His Majesty, 1592. Gomez Perez Dasmariñas. June 6." "A
place has already been given him as alcalde of Mexico, although the
matters reported in this letter are not remedied thereby."]
[Accompanying the letter, and on a separate fold of paper, is the
following:]
_Register of merchandise carried in the ship "Sant Felippe_"
I, Juan de Cuellar, notary of mines and registers, certify that, in
the galeon "Sant Felippe" now ready to set sail for Nueva España, from
the port of Cavite, this present year of five hundred and ninety-one,
the persons named below are exporting the following bales and boxes
of merchandise:
Bales Boxes
Don Frai Domingo de Salazar, bishop
of the Philippinas, fifteen bales and
thirty-three boxes. xv xxxiii
The president Santiago de Vera, with
the others contained in his memorandum,
sixty bales and twenty-nine
boxes. lx xxix
Pedro Herrandez, for the licentiate
Rojas, former auditor of the royal
Audiencia, and present counselor,
etc., nineteen bales and four boxes. xix iiii
The auditor Don Antonio de Rribera
Maldonado, fifty-two bales and
twenty boxes. lii xx
The licentiate Ayala, fiscal, twenty-seven
bales and seventeen boxes. xxvii xvii
The dean of Manila cathedral, in the
said vessel and in that of Juan Pablo,
thirteen bales and seven boxes. xiii vii
Estevan Gonzales, canon of the said church,
five bales and three boxes. v iii
The licentiate Herver del Corral, visitor
of the royal Audiencia of Manila, eighteen
bales and one box. xviii i
The schoolmaster of the Manila cathedral,
six bales. vi
Father Cervantes, ecclesiastic, three bales
and six boxes. iii vi