And inasmuch as my intention and will is that the orders and commands on the said subject be obeyed and executed exactly, I request and charge you to examine the said decree, above inserted, and to observe and obey it _in toto_, exactly as is contained and declared therein. Such is my will, notwithstanding that, in the course of time and with the claims of the prelates, any other custom may have been tolerated or introduced. That shall not be allowed, under any consideration whatever. In order that the above order may have more complete effect, I am having the Audiencia there ordered, by another decree of the same date with this, to give you the necessary protection and aid for it. You shall advise me of all that is done in this matter. Given at Madrid, December thirty-one, one thousand six hundred and twenty-two. _I The King_ By order of the king, our sovereign: _Juan Ruiz de Contreras_ Signed by the Council. [_Endorsed_: "To the archbishop of Manila, that he observe the decree above inserted, so that the religious of the missions shall be examined in the language of the Indians."] [_Endorsed_: "_Id._ To the bishop of Nueva Segovia in Philipinas." "_Id._ To the bishop of Nueva Cáceres." "_Id._ To the bishop of the city of Santisimo Nombre de Jesús."] DOCUMENTS OF 1623-1624 Letter to Fajardo. Felipe IV; October 9, 1623. Royal permission for the Dominican college in Manila. Felipe IV; November 27, 1623. Expedition to the mines of the Igorrotes. Alonso Martin Quirante; June 5, 1624. _Sources_: The first of these documents is obtained from the "Cedulario Indico" in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; the second, from _Algunos documentos relat. Univ. de Manila_, p. 21, and Pastells's edition of Colin's _Labor evangélica_, iii, p. 565; the third, from a MS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. _Translations_: All these are made by James A. Robertson. Letter from Felipe IV to Fajardo The King. Don Alonso de Tenza, knight of the Order of Alcantara, my governor and captain-general of the Philipinas Islands, and president of my royal Audiencia thereof: The letter which you wrote me on August 20, 1622, containing information regarding the state of those islands, has been received; and in my royal Council of the Indias the points that belong to their province have been considered, and you will be furnished with the resolutions adopted thereon.