Volume 10 — Missions of the Religious Orders
Reading edition
Geronimo de Alcaraz
The notaries who have below signed their names certify and bear witness, to whomsoever may see the present paper, that Jeronimo de Alcaras, by whom this report is signed in this other part, is secretary of the chapter, acting as vicar-general, and is master of Page 191school and licentiate, and as such entire faith and credit, in and out of court, is given to the reports and other papers which have passed and shall pass before him. That this may be apparent, we have given this present in Manila, on the twenty-eighth of June of the year ninety-nine.
Francisco de Olavide, notary to his Majesty.
Francisco de Valencia, notary public.
Joan Paz Dessotomayor, notary royal.
[Endorsed: “Testimony regarding the occasions upon which the ordinary of the Filipinas Islands has given his permission to the mendicant religious to found churches and instruct the natives of those islands.”] Page 192