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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55: 1599-1602; 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

History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55: 1599-1602; 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

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

Beside this, in the ships which leave here this year goes a religious
of the Order of St. Augustine, Fray Francisco de Valdes by name, who
was sent, in company with Fray Diego de Cerrabi, by his order to the
court of your Majesty on the business of the order. This religious
can inform your Majesty of all which occurred on the said expedition,
as his order sent him on it to confess and administer the sacraments;
and he was present during the fight on the commander's ship, and saved
himself by swimming. As a trustworthy and disinterested person, he will
tell the truth, without being influenced by personal considerations.

I humbly beg your Majesty that, with this understanding, your Majesty
may be pleased to command that opportunity be not given for distortion
of facts in such a way, by persons so jealous and so suspicious, who
are moved alone by anger and passion to avenge themselves and procure
satisfaction from the ministers who, for the service of your Majesty,
have administered (as they still do) justice in your behalf; and
that you will command that the illegality which appears to have been
committed in this be punished, as is most fitting for the service of
your Majesty. God protect the Catholic person of your Majesty. Manila,
July 8, 1602.

_Doctor Antonio de Morga_



Sire:

I, the licentiate Gerónimo de Salazar y Salcedo, your fiscal in
the royal Chancilleria of the Philipinas Islands, say that on the
sixteenth of January of the year one thousand six hundred your Majesty
was pleased to command that a royal commission be given to Don Pedro
de Acuña, governor and captain-general of these islands, empowering
him, when he should reach them, to cause the royal officials to give
him a report of what they have collected from Don Francisco Tello,
his predecessor, toward the sixteen millions [of maravedis?] which
were still due from the balance which was incurred by him at the
time when he was treasurer of the Sevilla House of Trade; and also
to cause that whatever remained to be paid should be collected from
the said Don Francisco Tello and from his property.

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55: 1599-1602; 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

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

Beside this, in the ships which leave here this year goes a religious
of the Order of St. Augustine, Fray Francisco de Valdes by name, who
was sent, in company with Fray Diego de Cerrabi, by his order to the
court of your Majesty on the business of the order. This religious
can inform your Majesty of all which occurred on the said expedition,
as his order sent him on it to confess and administer the sacraments;
and he was present during the fight on the commander's ship, and saved
himself by swimming. As a trustworthy and disinterested person, he will
tell the truth, without being influenced by personal considerations.

I humbly beg your Majesty that, with this understanding, your Majesty
may be pleased to command that opportunity be not given for distortion
of facts in such a way, by persons so jealous and so suspicious, who
are moved alone by anger and passion to avenge themselves and procure
satisfaction from the ministers who, for the service of your Majesty,
have administered (as they still do) justice in your behalf; and
that you will command that the illegality which appears to have been
committed in this be punished, as is most fitting for the service of
your Majesty. God protect the Catholic person of your Majesty. Manila,
July 8, 1602.

_Doctor Antonio de Morga_



Sire:

I, the licentiate Gerónimo de Salazar y Salcedo, your fiscal in
the royal Chancilleria of the Philipinas Islands, say that on the
sixteenth of January of the year one thousand six hundred your Majesty
was pleased to command that a royal commission be given to Don Pedro
de Acuña, governor and captain-general of these islands, empowering
him, when he should reach them, to cause the royal officials to give
him a report of what they have collected from Don Francisco Tello,
his predecessor, toward the sixteen millions [of maravedis?] which
were still due from the balance which was incurred by him at the
time when he was treasurer of the Sevilla House of Trade; and also
to cause that whatever remained to be paid should be collected from
the said Don Francisco Tello and from his property.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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