Denemarqua, Suedia, and Polonia, or of the princes of the Empire, [31] or of any other rulers who are friends of these provinces, or inclined to the true Christian religion. Therefore we request and require all the said kings and princes, and all other states, and all persons whom the said Esaias de Lende shall encounter; and we also give express orders to all admirals, vice-admirals, colonels, captains, and other military men on sea or land, and others who are under the government of these provinces and owe them obedience--to recognize him as captain of the said ship, and to allow him, with the said ship and crew, not only to go and trade wherever he shall please, but also to assist him, and extend him all favor, aid, and succor, from which we shall receive great and especial favor and satisfaction. We will render favors to them on like occasions, and our people will perform for them the services for which they are under obligation. Given at La Haya [The Hague], on the twelfth of May in the year one thousand five hundred and ninety-eight. _Maurici de Nashau_ By order of his Excellency: _J. Melander_ [This is followed by a certificate (dated February 6, 1601) of the accuracy of the copy, with the statement that the original had been delivered to the royal notary for copying by Doctor Antonio de Morga.] Documents of 1601 Report to the governor, on the battle with the Dutch. Antonio de Morga, January 5. Annual letters from the Philippine Islands. Francisco Vaez, S.J.; June 10. Letter to Felipe III. Diego Garcia, S.J.; July 8. Letter from the fiscal to Felipe III. Hieronimo de Salazar y Salcedo; July 16. Complaint of the cabildo of Manila against Morga. Gonzalo Ronquillo de Vallesteros, and others; July 20. Letter to Felipe III. Antonio de Morga; July 30. Grant to Jesuit school in Cebú. Council of Indias; December 11. _Sources_: All these documents save one are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the second is taken from John Hay's compilation _De rebus Iaponicis, Indicis, et Pervanis_ (Antverpiæ, M. DC. v.), pp. 950-968, from the copy in the Library of Congress. _Translations_: The first and fourth of these documents are translated by Norman F. Hall, of Harvard University; the second, by Henry B. Lathrop, of the University of Wisconsin; the third, fifth, and sixth, by Robert W. Haight; the seventh, by James A. Robertson. Morga's Report to the Governor on the Battle with the Dutch _Copy of a petition of Dr. Antonio de Morga to the governor, in which he gives an account of all that happened in the expedition against the Dutch corsair, presented as soon as he returned from it._