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At the city of Manila, in the Filipinas islands of the West, on the second day of the month of March of the year one thousand five hundred and eighty-two, the most illustrious Don Gonçalo Ronquillo de Peñalosa, governor and captain-general for his Majesty of these said islands, said that, inasmuch as he had been informed that about three years ago Fray Pedro de Alfaro, custodian of the descalced religious of the order of St. Francis, had left these islands secretly, taking with him other religious, and that he went without order or license therefor from his Majesty or the governor, to the kingdom of China, where he now is; and inasmuch as Fray Pablo de