[15] Churlo (or churla; from the Latin culeo, ablative of culeus): a sack made of pita (i.e., agave) fiber-cloth, covered with another sack of leather, for carrying cinnamon and other articles from one region to another without losing their strength (Echegaray). [16] Palmeo: measure by palmos; evidently referring to the usual estimate of lading-space in a ship by cubic palmos. [17] That is, the spice trade with Nueva España, offered by Cadiz to Manila as an equivalent for the latter's traffic in Chinese silks. [18] This letter appears to have been directed against the Jesuits, who founded their college of San José in 1601, through the efforts of Diego Garcia, their visitor. See post. [19] See also Colin's statement regarding the college for 1656, VOL. XXIII, pp. 83, 84; and San Antonio's brief remarks on the college, in the same volume, pp. 134, 135. [20] The congregation of the Virgin, which was promoted by the visitor, Diego Garcia. It was formed from six students on St. Francis's day, 1600. So many people soon joined that it became necessary to split the congregation into two parts, one of students and the other of laymen, the latter of which had one hundred members in two years. Their objects were charity and devotion. The first to initiate the congregations of the Virgin in the Jesuit order was Juan de León, a Flemish priest, who established the first in the Roman college in 1563, giving it the title of Anunciada. It was given papal approval in 1564. See Colin's Labor evangélica, pp. 411-413; and Pastells's Colin, ii, pp. 243-246. [21] See VOL. XI, p. 225, note 44. [22] See VOL. XIII, pp. 64-71. [23] Luis Gomez, S.J., was born at Toledo, in 1569, and entered upon his novitiate in 1588. In 1598 he reached the Philippines, where he professed theology, and became rector of the college of San José, and afterwards of the college of Cebú and Antipolo. He died at Manila, March 1, 1627, or 1628, according to Murillo Velarde. See Sommervogel's Bibliothèque.