The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

At this point your Lordship makes a long digression, trying to give me to understand what my office is and what I can do and what I can not do, and for this your Lordship makes...

15. To this letter I replied by another which your Majesty will please to have examined, in which I answered his assertion that without giving instruction to the Indians we can...

In another letter I have informed your Majesty of my fears of Japanese enemies. After that letter and packet were closed, and the ships about to leave, it happened that the amba...

Admitting that we expect outside enemies--and we have them among us, because of our little assurance that the natives, if they see themselves safe, will not rise and attack us,...

To answer this doubt, we must admit that, with the diversities and natural features of countries, and with the characteristics of the peoples therein, is entwined most intimatel...

You report that, upon your arrival at those islands, you found that the Indians of Sirean, Yllocos, and Cagayan were paying ten reals, and had been doing so since the tribute wa...

As the first condition, the said Captain Estevan Rodriguez binds himself and promises to fulfil and observe as inviolate, first and foremost, the decrees and ordinances of his M...

The collection of tributes in the Filipinas (_concluded_). Domingo de Salazar, and others; January-March. Liberty of the Indians in the Philippinas. Gregory XIV; April 18. Artic...

With your Majesty's permission, I must state that I regret the trade of these Chinese, for it seems to me injurious. It might be forbidden on the ground of the great sums of mon...

The second ground, as I said, of a righteous war is the self-defense of the prince or of his subjects. This ground also is matter of both natural and divine right; for even as s...

_Commission of Gomez Perez Dasmarinas as governor; and other decrees which were taken to Macan_. Don Felipe, by the grace of God, King of Castilla, Leon, Aragón, the two Sicilie...

Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manu...

All the religious orders concurred in the opinion that war by fire and sword was justifiable, as is evident by the original opinions which I send herewith to your Majesty. In co...

To the second question he said that since the Spaniards had settled in the city of Manyla, the Sangleys--who at various times had formed settlements there--seeing there were Spa...

[The bishop replies (March 8) to the foregoing letter, which he accuses of being inspired by others than the governor--presumably by the Jesuits, since the name of Joseph de Aco...

_Amiagao_: _Minor son of Flores_--The minor son of Antonio Flores collects, in Amiago [_sic_], three hundred tributes, which represent one thousand two hundred persons. It has i...

_Baratao_: _Don Bernardino_--The encomienda of Baratao, belonging to Captain Don Bernardino de Sandi, collects tribute from one thousand five hundred men, or six thousand person...

_Canaman_: _Gregorio Sanchez_--Gregorio Sanchez has Canaman as an encomienda, with three hundred and six whole tributes, or one thousand two hundred and twenty-four persons, inc...

I was much pleased with the earnest zeal which your Lordship showed in your letter, but you must know that as I am old and have seen so many things, I do not care very much for...

I, Melchor de Baeça, declare, in the name of the cabildo, magistrates, and regimiento [9] of this city, that the rights of those whom I represent require that a formal report of...

10. The bishop founds his opinion on clause 32 of my instructions. This treats of the encomiendas which are disaffected or have never been pacified; and orders that I try to cor...

[9] _Regimiento_: the body of regidors, who never exceeded twelve, forming a part of the municipal council, or _ayuntamiento_, in every capital of a jurisdiction. See Bouvier's...