[47] Suppressed Audiencia to the King, June 20, 1590, Blair and Robertson, VII, 208–211; also Recopilación, 2–15–181.
[48] Salazar to Felipe II, June 24, 1590, Blair and Robertson, VII, 252.
[49] Morga’s Sucesos, Blair and Robertson, XV, 75.
[50] Dasmariñas to Felipe II, June 20, 1591, Blair and Robertson, VIII, 142–168, passim.
[51] Salazar, on reaching the Spanish court, was made first archbishop of the Philippines. He died on December 4, 1594, before he could assume his new post.
[52] Cédula of January 17, 1593, Blair and Robertson, VIII, 315.
[53] Ibid.; see also cédula of same date in Recopilación, 6–6–8.
[54] Morga remained in the Philippines throughout a period of eight years and during this time distinguished himself as a lawyer and judge, administrator, soldier, and later as a historian. It was due to his energies as senior magistrate that Van Noordt, the Dutch free-booter, was defeated at the entrance of Manila Bay. Morga, in his Sucesos, already quoted several times, has left us a scholarly view of conditions as they existed at the time of his residence in the Islands. Morga left the Philippines on July 10, 1603, with a promotion to the Audiencia of Mexico; he served in New Spain for several years and in 1616 he was again promoted to the post of president of the Audiencia of Quito.
[55] Dasmariñas to the King, December 6, 1595, A. I., 67–6–18.
[56] Misa to the King, May 31, 1595, A. I., 67–6–29.