Note 1 — COLLEGE OF SAN JUAN DE LETRAN
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On May 8 of this same year, 669, the college of San Juan de Letran was moved to the site on which it is even yet located. It had its first beginning in the house of a pious Spaniard, called Juan Geronimo Guerrero, who had dedicated himself, with Christian piety, to gathering orphan boys in his house, where he raised, clothed, and sustained them, and taught them to read and to write, and much more, to live in the fear of God.1 His piety was aided by many citizens, who offered him abundant alms. Especially was the governor, Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, earnest in aiding him and helping him by giving him, in the name of the king our sovereign, some portion of the cost for so holy a work. Among other things, he gave him an encomienda,2 in order to sustain the orphans with its products; and a bit of homestead or arable land, one hundred brazas long and fifty wide in the alcaycería or Parián of the Sangleys, in order that they might erect shops therein without paying any land tax to the city. Both concessions were afterwards confirmed by the king our sovereign and his royal Council.3