A Digital Repatriation of a Lost archive of the Spanish Pacific: The Library of The Convent of San Pablo (Manila, 1762)

Seal: four [and] one quarter, years one thousand seven hundred and thirty one

and thirty two.

{Left margin: Petition}

Very illustrious lord = Fray Pedro Orense of the Order of Our Father St. Augustine, and parish priest of the town of Malate, before your lordship, I present myself and I say that the right of my parish makes it appropriate for me to be given two such written legal assessments and their accompaniments with the decree and so on, about the fact that the natives and Mestizos of Vetuz and of Pasay have come to the agreement that their children would serve as altar boys in this church. This decree being the result of what the prosecutor of his majesty said. The date of said decree being the first of this present month of August, thus = I ask and beg your lordship to consider it useful that I present myself, and to instruct according to what I requested, as it is justice that I hope for from your lordship, etc. = Fray Pero Orense