that he pressed it most.  And as I thought that it was not right that he should try to distinguish himself in so unfitting a manner, and that it ought not to be permitted, and as remarks about it had been made in public, I told him of it, and asked him to put on the robe.  The answer he gave was what your Majesty may learn in the document which accompanies this, to which I refer you—­adding only that your Majesty may judge by this matter how other things must go, and his manner of behavior, in which he goes so far as to say, and let it be understood, that he alone can do these things, and must command everything.  Your Majesty will decree the remedy which is expedient and so necessary.  May our Lord protect the Catholic person of your Majesty with the happiness needful for Christendom.  Manila, July 15, 1605.

Don Pedro de Acuna

DOCUMENTS OF 1606

The Dominican mission of 1606.  Diego Aduarte, O.P., and others; 1604-06.  The Dutch factory at Tidore.  Joan ——­; March 16.  The Sangley insurrection of 1603.  Miguel Rodriguez de Maldonado.  Letter from the Audiencia to Felipe III.  Telles de Almacan, and others; July 6.  Letter from the fiscal to Felipe III.  Rodrigo Diaz Guiral; July.  The Terrenate expedition.  Council of the Indias; August 5 and 15.  Decree establishing a way-station for Philippine vessels on the California coast.  Felipe III; August 19.  Chinese immigration in the Philippines.  Pedro Munoz de Herrera, and others; July-November.  Letter to Acuna.  Felipe III; November 4.

Sources:  All these documents are obtained from foreign archives:  the third (a printed pamphlet) from the Real Academia de Historia, Madrid; the sixth, from the Archivo general at Simancas; the seventh, from the British Museum; the last, from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; all the rest, from the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

Translations.  The first, second, fourth, fifth, and eighth of these documents are translated by Henry B. Lathrop, of the University of Wisconsin; the third and seventh, by James A. Robertson; the sixth and ninth, by Norman F. Hall, of Harvard University.

The Dominican Mission of 1606

I, Fray Diego Duarte, [8] of the Order of St. Dominic, affirm that his Majesty by his royal decree, which I present herewith, commanded that in addition to the thirty religious and four servants whom in accordance with his said royal decree I received permission to convey to the Feliphinas Islands, I should conduct ten other religious, making forty in all; and that for the despatch of all of them your Lordship should give me what was necessary at the expense of his royal treasury.  This allowance is to be in conformity with the report mentioned in the said decree (which your Lordship has sent to the royal Council of the Yndias), which states the cost of the passage to the