to this permission, which are not lacking in any part of the world, and are found in all commerces, and are tolerated--either because it is impossible to correct them, or because it is not advisable to reduce them to the full rigor of the orders--those that are found in this commerce are not greater than those of others; for [65] neither the silver nor the merchandise which is hidden can exceed the amount permitted so greatly as has been represented, as has been [herein] stated. If there is any violation, there are sufficient precedents so that it ought to be tolerated, and the greatest reason [for so doing]; for it is impossible for that commerce to last in any other way, or to have capital with which to maintain it. [This is true], not only because of the duties that are paid, which are heavier than those of Sevilla; but because of the great amount that is lost in it by the risks, expenses, and hardships of its navigation, and by the special disasters that the islands and their inhabitants have suffered, and are liable to suffer--which are such and so many, that it is a wonder that they are not destroyed, ruined, and deserted by the onset of their disasters, losses, and diminutions, which it seems that the loyalty, the valor, and the constancy of their inhabitants have opposed. Besides that, their commerce is no longer what it was formerly; nor does it cause the damage that is noted; nor is it such that it can be done away with, without the downfall of the islands, the suffering of Nueva España, peril to Eastern India, the loss of its commerce, a greater infesting of the Western Indias, and the sorrow of these and those kingdoms for the result of this cause, as it is common to them all, as is proved. Therefore, the procurator-general of the islands, reducing all their affairs to this memorial, petitions your Majesty to grant them favor in the affairs and points which he will request in a separate memorial. Don Juan Grau y Monfalcon DOCUMENTS OF 1637 Defeat of Moro pirates. [Unsigned and undated; but probably written by Pedro Gutierrez, S.J., in 1637.] Auditorship of accounts in Manila, 1595-1637. [Unsigned and undated; probably written in 1637.] Conquest of Mindanao. Marcelo Francisco Mastrilli, S.J.; June 2. Events in Filipinas, 1636-37. Juan Lopez, S.J.; July 23. Corcuera's triumphant entry into Manila. Juan Lopez, May-July. Royal aid requested by the Jesuits at Manila. Francisco Colin, S.J., and others; July-August. Letters to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; August 20. Sources: The first, third, and fourth of these documents are obtained from MSS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the second and seventh, from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the fifth, from Barrantes's _Guerras piraticas_, pp. 303-310; the sixth, from Pastells's edition of Colin's _Labor evangélica_, iii, pp. 757-758.