A relief ship having sailed from those islands for Terrenate in the year 1639 was, as you have learned, assailed by a tempest, and it returned to that port, where the artillery that it carried was lost. This occurred, as you say, in water one and a half to two brazas in depth; and as it is certain that this artillery will be greatly needed, you shall endeavor to have it drawn out of the water, making every effort possible to accomplish this. I charge you to be heedful of this matter. As for what you say in regard to the purchase that Don Fray Hernando Guerrero, the late archbishop of those islands, made of some houses from Pedro de Heredia, to the amount of one hundred and forty pesos, and that the fiscal of the Audiencia there demands that these houses be added to the property of my royal crown for the same sum, and as you judge that from the property left by that prelate the debts which he left can be paid: it has appeared best to charge you, as I do, that you allow the property thus left by this archbishop to follow the natural course [of law], without making any innovation in this case. Zaragoza, August 4, 1643. I the King By command of the king our sovereign: Don Juan Bautista Saenz Navarrete DOCUMENTS OF 1644-1649 Concessions to the Jesuits. Balthasar de Lagunilla, S. J., and others; 1640-44. Events in the Philippines, 1643-44. [Unsigned and undated.] Fiscal's report on Sangley licenses. Sebastian Cavallero [de Medina]; 1644. Decree ordering reënforcements for the islands. Felipe IV; September 18, 1645. Erection of Santo Tomás into a university. Felipe IV and Innocent X; 1644-45. Trade with English not desired. Council of State; January 30, 1647. Affairs in Filipinas, 1644-47. Fray Joseph Fayol; 1647. Decree regarding missionaries. Felipe IV; September 17, 1647. Early Franciscan missions. [Unsigned; written in 1649.] Sources: The first and eighth documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the second and seventh, from MSS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the fourth (its original from the same source), from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), ii, pp. 353-355; the third, from a rare and perhaps unique pamphlet (Manila, 1644), in the possession of Edward E. Ayer; the fifth, from Documentos relativos á la Universidad de Manila, pp. 23-30 (but the letter to Siruela, from a MS. in the Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid); the sixth, from a MS. in the Archivo general of Simancas; the ninth, from Retana's Archivo, i, pp. [15-71]. Translations: The first, second, fourth and eighth are made by Emma Helen Blair; the third, fifth, sixth, and ninth, by James A. Robertson; the seventh, by Mary F. Foster and Emma Helen Blair. CONCESSIONS TO THE JESUITS Sire: