[8] Diego Aduarte was born at Zaragoza, about 1570, and at the age of sixteen entered a Dominican convent at Alcala de Henares. In 1594 he joined the mission to the Philippines, arriving at Manila June 12, 1595. In the following January Aduarte accompanied the expedition sent by Luis Dasmarinas to Cambodia (see _Vol_. IX, pp. 161-180, 265, 277); the result of this was disastrous, and after many dangers and hardships, and a long illness, he returned to Manila on June 24, 1597. Two years later he went to China, to rescue Dasmarinas (stranded there after another unsuccessful expedition to Cambodia), and remained until February, 1600. Soon afterward he went to Spain on business of his order, arriving there in September, 1603. There he obtained a reenforcement of missionaries for the Philippines, arriving at the islands in August, 1606. He was again despatched to Spain (July, 1607), where he remained until 1628; he then returned to the Philippines with another missionary band. He was seen afterward elected prior of the convent at Manila, and later became bishop of Nueva Segovia; but exercised the latter office only a year and a half, dying in the summer of 1636. Aduarte's _Historia de la provincia del Sancto Rosario_ (Manila, 1640) is his chief work; we shall present it in later volumes of this series. See biography of Aduarte in _Resena biografica de los religiosos de la provincia del Santisimo Rosario de Filipinas_ (Manila, 1891), pp. 148-172. [9] Master (Latin _magister_, Spanish _maestro_): a title of honor given to religious of venerable age or distinguished services; see Du Cange, _s.vv. dominus ordinis, magister ordinis_. [10] So in the MS., but apparently an error of _cuatro_ for _cinco_ ("five"), as the evidence of this and the other documents of this group indicates that this warrant was given in 1605, not 1604. [11] The garment placed by the tribunal of the Inquisition upon persons who, after trial, became penitent and were reconciled to the church. [12] San Juan de Ulua (or Lua, also Ulloa), in Mexico, was thus named (1518) for St. John and in honor of Juan Grijalva, one of Cortes's officers, who in that year discovered Yucatan. In the summer of the following year, Cortes founded, not far from this place, the city of Vera Cruz. [13] In our copy of this document (the official transcript) the text reads _que son 80 pesos_; but as in half a year but two of these tri-yearly payments would be made, it seems more probable that this was intended for _20 pesos_.