The King: To the Conde de Monterrey, my kinsman, and viceroy, governor
and captain-general of Nueva Spaña, or to the person or persons in
whose charge the government thereof may be: Don Francisco Tello, my
governor and captain-general of the Philipinas Islands, has informed
me of the prosperous condition of the seminary of Sancta Potenciana
at Manila, where girls are sheltered, and of the retirement and the
exemplary lives which they lead, and that many of them intend to remain
in the said seminary. I wrote to you to send them, from Nueva Spaña,
two religious women for the said seminary, but you answered to the
effect that none of them dared to go. As this is of great importance,
and should be carried out, for the establishment of that seminary and
the settlement there of professed nuns, and that its inmates may be
thoroughly trained in piety, I charge and command that you that, in
any event, you make arrangements to send there the said two religious
women from one of the convents of your country, and that they shall
be persons of approved character--and this on account of the great
service which this will be for our Lord; and you shall advise me of
what is done in the matter.
Given at Camora, on the sixteenth of February, in the year one thousand
six hundred and two.
_I, The King_