[12] In the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla, is a document which contains the following statement: "I, Captain Joan de Bustamante, accountant and official judge of the royal exchequer of the Filipinas islands, certify that, according to the books, accounts, and papers of the office and records of the said royal exchequer, it is not, since the past year of fifteen hundred and eighty-one, when the cathedral church of this city was founded by Don Fray Domingo de Salazar, first bishop of these islands, up to the present year of fifteen hundred and ninety-nine, evident nor apparent that there have been given from the royal exchequer to the said church any bells, images, ornaments, chalices, candelabra, missals, or choir-books for the service thereof; nor has there been paid over for that purpose any coins of gold, as appears by the said books and papers to which I refer. In certification whereof, and that this may be apparent, I have, on the petition of the dean and chapter, _sede vacante_, given these presents in Manila on the fifth of July of the year one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine." [13] _Vosotros_: the familiar form of the second person plural of the personal pronoun; its use in this case was a mark of contempt for his audience. [14] The convent of San Francisco del Monte was situated at somewhat more than a league from Manila; and an estate was granted to the Franciscan order by Santiago de Vera, for the support of the convent. See Santa Inés's _Crónica_, i, pp. 531-534, for full account of its foundation. [15] This dignitary was Fray Miguel Benavides, of the Dominican order; see _Vol_. VII, p. 234. [16] Morga says of this affair, in his _Sucesos_ (Hakluyt Soc. trans.), p. 62: "Ronquillo was set at liberty on showing a private letter from the governor, which he had sent him separately with the first instructions, ordering him in any case to come to Manila with all his forces, because he wanted them for other necessities of the islands; and Don Juan said that on the strength of that letter he had not waited for second instructions." [17] According to Morga, this chief was killed by some of his own followers, to gain the reward offered by the Spaniards. [18] Span., _negros çambales_. It is possible that _y_ was omitted by some error; or it may mean the blacks who lived in the hill-country of the Zambales district. The Zambales were a Malay tribe; but, as we have already seen (_Vol_. VIII, p. 218), their revolt against the Spaniards in 1591-92 was in association with the Negritos of that region. As will be remembered, the Zambales surviving that revolt were placed in new settlements in other districts. [19] Another corruption of Kuwambaku, the official appellation of Hideyoshi, then ruler of Japan (see _Vol_. VIII, p. 262, and note 42). [20] Morga states that Navarrete, after sending the letter to Tello died at Nangasaki.