advantageous to the foreigners, to whom almost all this commodity belongs. Two thousand bales of cotton textiles exported from Manila are also consumed (there); and the fact that there is less or more does not cause any considerable loss in the linen made from flax and hemp, nor does it involve much money; for the two thousand bales of cotton are worth one hundred and fifty thousand pesos, while one thousand of fine linen are worth more than one million." (Informatory Memorial addressed to the King, Juan Grau y Monfalcon, Procurator General; Madrid, 1637.--Bl. and Rb., Vol. 27, pp. 200-201.) [99] Ibid., pp. 98-104. [100] Ibid., pp. 115-116. [101] Ibid., pp. 120. [102] Ibid., pp. 186-197. [103] Ibid., p. 158. [104] Ibid. [105] Recopilación de Leyes, Lib. IX, Tit. XXXV, Ley VI. In Bl. and Rb., Vol. 17, pp. 30-31. Jan. 11, 1593. [106] Ibid., Ley XV.--Bl. and Rb., Vol. 17, pp. 31-32. Jan. 11, 1593. [107] Ibid., Ley XXXIV.--Bl.and Rb., Vol. 17, p. 32. Jan. 11, 1593. [108] Ibid., Ley LXVIII.--Bl. and Rb., Vol. 17, p. 33. Jan. 11, 1593. [109] La Libertad de Comercio, p. 49. [110] Recopilación, Lib IX, Tit. XXXV, Leyes LXXIV, LXXV, and LXXVI.--Bl. and Rb., Vol. 17, pp. 42-44. [111] Pedro Quiroga. [112] Recopilación, ibid., Ley LXXVIII.--Bl. and Rb., Vol. 17, pp. 44-45. [113] As to the effect of these restrictions Azcarraga says: "* * * thus, at the end of that century, there was nothing but poverty and discontent in the city; the white population had hardly increased; commerce, confined within the narrow sphere of periodic voyages to Acapulco, was languishing, without attempting to engage in any other kind of traffic; and poverty was reflected even in the very troops stationed in the city, who did duty unshod and without uniform (camisa), frequently committing robberies at the Chinese stores. * * *" (La Libertad, p. 54.) [114] Extracto Historial, Antonio Alvarez de Abreu.--Bl. and Rb., Vol. 44, p. 231. [115] Ibid., p. 236. [116] Ibid., p. 232. [117] Ibid., pp. 256-258. Also Azcarraga, La Libertad, pp. 58-59.