The reply of the royal officials. The official judges of the royal estate say that the general books, and the old pay-checks which have been paid by decree of the governors during the time to which your Lordship refers in your order, have been delivered to the auditing department of the exchequer; and that there is no reason for the compilation of such a report by them. They petition your Lordship to be pleased to refer the matter to the auditor of accounts, as he has possession of all the said papers. Manila, February sixteen, one thousand six hundred and thirty-six.

Yñigo de Vlllareal
Don Baltasar Ruiz de Escalona

Manila, February twenty-three, one thousand six hundred and thirty-six. Let the auditor [contador] Juan Bautista de Çubiaga, auditor of accounts and results in these islands, give the certification that is asked for by the decree of February ten of this year. At the foot of that decree is the rubric of Governor Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera.

Ortega

[Marginal note: “Certification of the auditor of accounts and amounts—102 thousand 596 pesos, 1 tomin, 8 granos paid in pay-checks with the authority of the owners.”]

In obedience to the above decree of Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, governor and captain-general of these Filipinas Islands, and president of the royal Audiencia herein, I, Juan Bautista de Çubiaga, auditor of accounts and results of the royal estate of these said islands, certify that it appears from the original pay-checks which are in my possession belonging to the general accounts of the royal treasury of this city of Manila, for the period between years one thousand six hundred and thirty-two and the end of one thousand six hundred and thirty-five, that the official judges of this royal estate have paid from the said royal treasury a number of pay-checks that were legitimately owing to persons who were serving in the pay of his Majesty, and for other reasons, to other extraordinary persons, by virtue of authorities, cessions, and transfers made to them by the real owners to collect them from the said royal treasury—and who did collect them—and to satisfy with them certain balances of accounts and results that persons who received posts in these islands owed to his Majesty for various reasons. The pay-checks that here appear to have been paid to such persons by virtue of authorities, cessions, and transfers made to them by the real owners, are as follows:

Year of 1632

Pay-check number fifty-two, for seven hundred and fifty pesos, owed to the natives of the village of Candaba, for the value of one thousand two hundred fanegas of rice, which they gave as a bandala in the year one thousand six hundred and fifteen. It was collected by father Fray Francisco de Figueroa, procurator-general of the Order of St. Augustine, by their authorization, on August thirty, one thousand six hundred and thirty-two, by decree of the royal Audiencia which was governing ad interim.[14]
. . . . . . . . 750 pesos

Pay of the Infantry of Terrenate

Number of pay-checkAmount of pay-checkDue toExpiration of servicePaid toDate of paymentRemarks
pesos tomins granos
200 0 0Pedro Roso, a soldierJune 26, 1620Captain Alonso Garcia RomeroFebruary 18Without decree of government.
4100 0 0Alonso BarrientosJuly 17, 1620Adjutant Alonso Perez ManzanMarch 15By decree of Juan Niño de Tabora, and by the advice of the royal officials to pay with this sum and others a balance of 1,000pesos owed by said adjutant to the royal estate.[15]
5200 0 0Antonio de AsnarMarch 10, 1620Adjutant Alonso Perez ManzanMarch 15Idem.
7614 0 10Juan Pablos de CisnerosApril 2, 1631Admiral Don Francisco EsguerraJune 4By authority and decree of Juan Niño de Tabora, to satisfy claims due the royal treasury by Esguerra. Reported by the royalofficials.
141,640 5 3Captain Francisco Melendez MarquezApril 30, 1621Juan de Santa Cruz, superintendent of the royal magazines in ManilaAugust 17By decree of the governor, to satisfy claims of the magazines for a quantity of Castilian wine taken in exchange for workand repair that he made in them for his house.
17–251,339 3 6Nine personsAt various datesCaptain Luis Alonso de RoaAugust 25By authority and transfer of the owners, and by decree of the government and report of the royal officials, as a partial paymentof a sum of money charged against Captain Luis de Contreras, ex-overseer of Pintados.
2850 0 0Alonso Perez, a soldierMarch 18, 1626Captain Francisco de RebolledoSeptember 27By order of the royal Audiencia.
29100 0 0Juan Sevillano a soldierFebruary 1, 1625Francisco Ruiz, steward of the royal hospitalSeptember 27By authority from Juan de Santa Cruz, superintendent of the royal magazines, executor of Juan Sevillano, without governmentdecree.
40–43793 5 9Captain Don Pedro Taroc Juan Aucan, a SangleyDecember 11Collects 517 pesos, 4 tomins by order of the governor, to pay for 60 licenses for 60 Sangleys.
7–8380 4 6Antonio Caraballo, a soldierJune 5, 1628Adjutant Alonso Perez ManzanoMarch 15With authority and transfers of the executors, and paid by virtue of an order of Juan Niño de Tabora, by the advice of theroyal officials, in order to pay claims of the treasury of 1,000 pesos against him.
Domingo Fernandez, artilleryman (both deceased)December 14, 1617
63345 5 6The executors of Juan Gonzalez de Carate, deceased artillerymanDecember 3, 1625Captain Luis Alonso de RoaAugust 25By decree of Juan Niño de Tabora, and report of the royal officials as partial payment of a sum of money charged against CaptainLuis de Contreras, overseer of Oton, as heir of the bondsman of the said overseer.
69468 5 0Francisco de la FuenteDecember 31, 1629Captain Gonzalez de FranciaSeptember 3To pay a charge resulting from the visit.
7496 2 8Juan Antonio Tello, a soldierOctober 10, 1620Alférez Pedro Ruiz Suarez By order of the royal Audiencía to pay the balance remaining to him in his residencia as corregidor of Calamianes and Ybalon.
122222 5 5The executors of Pascual de Aguilar, deceasedJanuary 22, 1622Francisco Gomez, of the exchequerDecember 22By decree of the royal Audiencia, paid 103 pesos, 4 tomins, to pay general licenses granted to Sangleys.