being evident to the said governor, he ordered that to them be given annually, for such period as should seem fitting to him, two hundred pesos and two hundred fanegas of rice, as an alms, from the treasury of the fourths from the encomiendas that are without instruction.  With this it is, however, impossible to support the said residence.  It has need of repairs on its house, and, on account of its narrow quarters, of erecting new buildings; and because it has no alms, in lands or chaplaincies, [52] for the mass or any other of the purposes referred to, it is in great want, as is evident by the investigations made in the royal Audiencia of the said islands, which were examined in the Council.  He entreats that your Majesty, in consideration of the aforesaid, will order that the said two hundred pesos and two hundred fanegas of rice—­which were granted to it, as stated, by the said governor from the treasury of the fourths—­be set aside for it from the royal treasury, as the other fund is not a permanent one.  He further asks that you will bestow upon it from the royal treasury one thousand pesos of income for its support, and three thousand, to be paid once, for repairs and buildings for the said residence; since your Majesty is wont to favor the other parts of the Yndias for this purpose, as there is no other recourse for aid.  After examining this matter in the Council, our opinion is that, if your Majesty be so pleased, one thousand pesos of eight reals each, might be given once to that residence from the royal treasury of the Philipinas, as an aid in building its houses; and that, besides, information concerning it should be obtained from the governor and the archbishop.  Valladolid, December 11, 1601.

[Endorsed: “Council of the Indias; December 11, 1601.  In regard to the aid and alms that should be bestowed upon the residence of the Society in the city of Santisimo Nombre de Jesus, of the Philippinas.”  “So let it be.”]

Documents of 1602

Instructions to Pedro de Acuna.  Felipe III; February 16.  Two royal decrees.  Felipe III; February 16.  Pintados menaced by Mindanao pirates.  Juan Juarez Gallinato, and others; May 29-June 4.  Letters to Felipe III.  L. P. Dasmarinas, and others; June 8-July 10.

Source:  All these documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

Translations:  The first document is translated by Alfonso de Salvio, of Harvard University; the second, and part of the fourth, by Robert W. Haight; the third, and part of the fourth, by Norman F. Hall, of Harvard University; the first letter in the fourth, by Jose M. and Clara M. Asensio.

Instructions to Pedro de Acuna

The King:  To Don Pedro de Acuna, whom I have appointed my governor and captain-general of the Philipinas Islands, and president of my Audiencia therein.  My royal Council of the Indias having examined some letters from the said islands, I have resolved upon the following.