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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55: 1635-36; 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 — John Shaqi

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55: 1635-36; 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

The King. To Marques de Cerralvo, my relative, member of my Council
of War, governor and captain-general of the provinces of Nueva
Espana, and president of my royal Audiencia therein: Don Juan Grau y
Monfalcon, procurator-general of the city of Manila, has informed me
that there is great need of sailors and soldiers in those islands,
and that they need at least 2,200 soldiers for the defense of those
islands--600 being assigned to the city; in the fort and redoubt, 100;
in the fort of Cavite, another 100; in the galleys, a like number;
in Cibu and Caragua, 200; in the island of Hermosa and Cagayan,
400; and in Terrenate, 600. There can be no security without them,
and although some reenforcements are sent from Nueva Espana, as these
are so few those needs are not remedied. It is also necessary that the
ships that sail from Acapulco to the said islands leave at the latest
by the twenty-fifth of March, because of the troubles that result
if the contrary be done. He petitioned me to order you to make the
reenforcements to the fullest extent possible, and to send annually at
least four hundred soldiers, eight hundred and fifty sailors and the
artillerymen that you can send, since the conservation of the islands
depends on them. The matter having been examined in my Council of
War of the Yndias, I have considered it fitting to give the present,
by which I charge and order you to fulfil in both matters the commands
of my decrees in this regard. Madrid, March 10, 1634.


_I the King_

By order of his Majesty:
_Don Gabriel de Ocana y Alarcon_

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