[38] There is evidently a slip of some sort here, due either to mistranscription or to a slip between Messa's hand and brain. The sense seems to require some such phrase as "depositions were given with great fear." [39] There is a probable play on words here, the original reading _asolar_, literally, "destroy;" but the writer may have used it in the sense of "to deprive the earth of the sun," in view of the succeeding remark, _sol_ being the word for "sun." [40] This letter is published, in an abridged form, by Rev. Pablo Pastells, in his edition of Colin's _Labor evangélica_, ii, pp. 688, 689; but he there dates the letter July 25, while the Sevilla MS. (here followed) makes it August, in 1621. [41] The italic side heads and center heads throughout this letter appear in the margin of the original, and were made either by the archbishop himself or by a government clerk. [42] _i.e._, guardianship: the district allowed to each convent in which to beg. [43] This last sentence is evidently the correction in the margin noted by the archbishop in the last clause of the present letter. [44] The numbers given in the text (all written out in words, not figures) amount to 205,000. [45] The numbers given in the text, for the various bishoprics, amount to 509,450. [46] Conducted by the confraternity of that name; see letter of Audiencia regarding the objects and work of this association, in _Vol_. XIV, pp. 208-313. See also Dasmariñas's account of the royal hospital, in _Vol_. X, pp. 28-40. [47] At that period the (new) Parián, as shown by a plan of 1641, was opposite the city of Manila on the other side of the Pasig River. Evidently, then, the Chinese and Indians were obliged to pay tolls for crossing the river to the city. [48] See _Vol_. XIII, p. 185, note 33. _Beca_ is most suitably translated "sleeves." [49] A decree of like tenor was sent to the Audiencia on the same date. It is quite probable that similar decrees were sent to all the orders.