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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640: 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 centuryAduarte, Diego

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640: 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

Name: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640: 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
Author: Aduarte, Diego

Aduarte, Diego

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

Another reason: because--as is proved in the said memorial, nos. 115,
116, and 117--these commodities from the islands do not interfere with
those that are shipped from España, because they are so different in
quality. If the people have the former, they consume them; if not,
they cannot supply the lack with the goods from these kingdoms,
for these are of much value, and those from the islands are worth
but little. Nor does it follow that the poor Indian or negro who
buys a vara of canvas from the islands for a real and a half will,
if he cannot obtain it, buy the same goods from Ruan for six or eight
reals; since it is more probable that he will dispense with the goods,
even if he go without a shirt, than possible that he can buy it when
he has not enough money to pay for it.

Another reason: because permission is not asked to carry back the
returns for these goods in silver, since their proceeds, as being of
small value, will be part of the returns allowed for the merchandise
of China; and because, in case there is not room for these proceeds,
the inhabitants of the islands will sooner cease to ship cloth from
China, which costs them their wealth, than cloth of their own country,
since they possess it for the gathering, or their Indians pay tributes
in it. And for these and other reasons which might be presented,
and which will be very evident to your illustrious Lordship in Nueva
España as soon as you undertake and investigate the matter, may be
inferred the just cause, the readiness, and the need with which the
Philipinas ask for the above declaration.





Point fourth

Although the commerce from Perù to Nueva España does not apparently
concern Manila, and accordingly it will be deemed that Manila is
not interested in the question whether the suspension laid thereon
be continued or removed: proof will first be adduced of the injury
which the Philipinas Islands experience from that suspension, and then
will be presented some arguments, from the many which exist, for the
granting of the permission which was formerly current in that commerce.

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