CHAPTER VI

Summary

Of the Government of Don Francisco Tello; and of the second establishment of the Audiencia of Manila; and of the things that happened during the period of this government.

The Governor Don Luys Dasniariñas was expecting news of Captain Juan Xuarez Gallinato, and of the Governor Bstevan Rodriguez de Figueroa, respecting the voyage which each had made in the beginning of this year, ninety-six, to Cambodia and to Mindanao; when advices reached Manila in the month of June that there were two ships from the passage of the Espiritu Santo, within amongst the islands, and that there came in them, sent from Spain as new governor, Don Francisco Tello de Guzman, knight of the habit of Santiago, a native of Seville, treasurer of the House of Commerce with the Indies. He entered Manila in the first days of July, and was received at the Government House. At the same time it was known that there remained in New Spain the Archbishop-elect of Manila, Fray Ygnacio de Santivañez of the order of St. Francis, a native of Santivañez in the province of Burgos; for the Bishop Fray Domingo de Salazar had died in Madrid; and that Fray Miguel de Benavides, native of Carrion, a Dominican monk, was bishop-elect of the city of Segovia in the province of Cagagan; he had gone to Spain as the companion of the Bishop Fray Domingo de Salazar.