CHAPTER I.Of the prelates and their districts in the islands, and.
of certain curious things.
The island called Lucon, which is the most important, has two bishops and an archbishop.

The archbishopric has jurisdiction in the vicinity of the city of Manila, the capital of that country.

Toward the east it reaches as far as the village called Calilaya, forty leguas from the city on the same island.

It has four offices of alcalde-mayor, which is the same thing as a corregimiento--namely those of La Laguna de Vai, La Laguna de Bonvon, another in Valayan, and that of Calilaya.

In this there are many Indian villages administered by religious of the Augustinian order, and still more by the discalced of St.Francis.Toward the west of the jurisdiction is that of the province of Pampanga, which is fertile and well-peopled, and that of Bulacan, and the Cambales.