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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55: 1636-37; 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

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55: 1636-37; 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

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as possible, accompanied by the king of Siao and the sargento-mayor,
Juan Gonzalez de Casares Melon. They took such good measures that they
defeated the enemy, killing four hundred Moros, with but little loss
to our men, and captured about one hundred and fifty persons. The
Spaniards took from them ten pieces of artillery, and many muskets,
arquebuses, and other arms; and left their settlements destroyed
and burned, and their fort razed. I thank you heartily for what
you have done in my service. You shall always be regardful of what
may be most to my service, and shall strive for the conservation of
whatever belongs to us. You shall see that the enemy are checked,
and that they do not become powerful with new forts. In my name, you
shall give thanks to Sargento-mayor Juan Casares Melon for the good
management displayed in what he has done; and tell him that account
will be taken of his person in order to grant him reward. I have
ordered my governor and captain-general of the Filipinas Islands to
attend very particularly to all that concerns those forts. Because of
the great importance to their conservation and condition of exchanging
the soldiers in those forts, I have ordered two companies to be sent
in two galleons, and two others that are there to be taken back;
so that in this way the soldiers of that presidio shall be exchanged
every three years, and all the companies of the army shall share in
the work equally. I have thought best to advise you of this, so that
having understood it, you may, on your part, secure, in what pertains
to you, the fulfilment of it all. Madrid, November 6, 1636.


           I the King

By order of his Majesty:
           Gabriel de Ocaña y Alarcon








MEMORIAL INFORMATORIO AL REY


By Juan Grau y Monfalcón, Madrid, 1637.

Source: This document is obtained from a printed book in the Academia
Real de la Historia, Madrid, collated with the MS. copy in the
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid.

Translation: This is made by James A. Robertson.






GRAU Y MONFALCON'S INFORMATORY MEMORIAL OF 1637

_Informatory memorial [addressed] to the king our sovereign, in his
royal and supreme Council of the Indias, in behalf of the distinguished
and loyal city of Manila, capital of the Filipinas Islands, in regard
to the claims of that city and of those islands and their inhabitants,
and the commerce with Nueva España: by Don Juan Grau y Monfalcon,
their procurator-general at this court. Madrid, in the royal printing
office, 1637._ [4]



Number 1. Intention of this memorial, in which are discussed all the
principal matters of the Filipinas Islands.


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