thousand six hundred and three. Let the investigation be immediately
made, and committed to the secretary, and the results brought up for
judicial action.

_Esquivel_

[Then follows the above-mentioned investigation--depositions by
various persons, corroborating the statements of the fiscal; and a
decree by the governor, forbidding any Chinaman to insult or molest
the mandarins, and the latter to exercise any rights of justice in
Spanish territory.]



RESIGNATION OF HIS OFFICE BY THE BISHOP OF NUEVA SEGOVIA


In the city of Manila of the Philippine Islands, on the fourth of
July in the year one thousand six hundred and three, before me,
the notary and the undersigned witnesses. The most reverend Señor
Don Fray Miguel de Benavides, the first bishop of Nueva Segobia
of the said islands, member of the Council of the king our lord,
declared that--inasmuch as his royal Majesty Don Philipe the Third,
our lord and king, had been pleased to choose him, and present him to
the notice of his Holiness the most holy father, the Roman pontiff,
as archbishop of this archbishopric of Manila, and appreciating so
fully the grace shown therein by his Majesty, and desiring to fulfil
the royal will and pleasure as a faithful vassal, and for other reasons
important to the service of God and that of the said king our lord,
and for the good of the souls in this land--from the present moment he