The following are taken from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library): 4. Condition of Philippines, 1652.--Tomo ii, pp. 385-390. 5. Jesuit missions, 1655.--Tomo ii, pp. 391-399. 6. Events in Manila, 1662-63.--Tomo ii, pp. 421-480. 7. Letter from Salcedo.--Tomo ii, pp. 481-483. 8. Friars and episcopal visitation.--Tomo ii, pp. 401-419. The following is obtained from Retana's Archivo: 9. Royal funeral rites.--Tomo ii, pp. 105-158. The following are taken from Pastells's edition of Colin's Labor evangélica: 10. Aid asked for Jesuits.--Tomo iii, pp. 786, 787. 11. Two Jesuit memorials.--Tomo iii, pp. 804, 805. The following is taken from Historia general de los religiosos descalzos ... de San Agustin: 12. Recollect missions, 1646-60.--Part ii, by Luis de Jesús (Madrid, 1681), pp. 371-373, from a copy in the possession of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago; and part iii, by Diego de Santa Theresa (Barcelona, 1743) pp. 134-558, from a copy in the Library of Congress--using only such matter as relates to the Philippines. The following is obtained from an old pamphlet not usually included in Philippine bibliographies: 13. Description of Filipinas, 1662.--From a pamphlet published at Puebla, Mexico, in 1662; it is bound in with Letona's Perfecta religiosa (Puebla, 1662, a rare work), in the copy possessed by Antonio Graiño y Martinez, Madrid. The following is obtained from Sinibaldo de Mas's Informe de las Islas Filipinas: 14. Administracion de Justicia (1842).--Vol. ii, no. 12. NOTES [1] Evidently a reference to the "Relation" of Father Fayol, q.v., Vol. XXXV, pp. 212-275. [2] This was the mother of the dead prince Baltasar Cárlos--Isabel (or Elizabeth) of France, daughter of Henri IV; she died October 6, 1644. [3] i.e., "The crown of our head has fallen." [4] Spanish, una media naranja, literally, "a half orange." [5] The original verses are given for this and following stanzas, because of the plays on words which cannot be perfectly rendered in English. [6] Codal: A short thick wax candle, one cubit in length. [7] Upon the occasion of the death of the late pope Leo XIII, a rich catafalque was erected in the great cathedral of Sevilla, between the choir and the high altar, and services were conducted somewhat in the same manner as here described. [8] Diego Patiño was born June 1, 1598, at Tarancon, in the diocese of Cuenca, and entered his novitiate March 22, 1613. After teaching grammar he went to the Philippines in 1622. He had charge of missions in Catubig, Malanao, Iligan, and Dapitan; was afterwards associate to the provincial, rector of Catbologan and Manila, and provincial of the Philippines; and was finally sent to Rome as procurator. He was versed in the various dialects of the Bisayan Islands. See Sommervogel's Bibliothèque, and post, note 9.