Of other works of charity in which this venerable brotherhood was
busied for the benefit of captive Spaniards and Portuguese, and
the alms which it sent to Japon and other districts, and the devout
exercises in which it busied itself with great profit.
[Silva's expedition against the Dutch who attempt to raid the islands
in 1609 and 1610, which ends in the defeat of the latter, April 24,
1610 (the leader of the Dutch being one Francisco Ubiter, who was with
Oliver van Noordt in his battle with the Spaniards), is a great drain
on the community. The loss of the ship "San Francisco" in Japan, which
left Nueva España in July, 1609, means a great loss to the citizens,
and gives the brotherhood much to do. Those wounded in Silva's wars,
up to the time of his death, April 19, 1616, both Spaniards and native
soldiers, as well as some foreign ones who participated therein,
become a special object of care to the brotherhood. Many Spanish and
Portuguese captives are redeemed from the Dutch during this period. The
charity of the brotherhood reaches even to Japan, where the Christians
are being persecuted so unrelentingly at this time. Lastly, the bones
of members of the brotherhood who have died and been buried in the
islands of Mariveles and Fortuna, and in Playa Honda and other places
are removed thence and buried in the Manila cathedral.]