te of profit, etc.

_The Editors_

September, 1904.

Documents of 1620

Reforms needed in the Filipinas (concluded). Hernando de los Rios
Coronel; [1619-20].
Letter to Alonso de Escovar. Francisco de Otaco, S.J.; January 14.
Decree ordering reforms in the friars' treatment of the
Indians. Felipe III; May 29.
Relation of events in the Philipinas Islands, 1619-20. [Unsigned];
June 14.
Compulsory service by the Indians. Pedro de Sant Pablo, O.S.F.;
August 7.
Letter from the Audiencia to Felipe III. Hieronimo Legaspi de
Cheverria, and others; August 8.
Letter to Felipe III. Alonso Fajardo de Tenza; August 15.
Letter to Alonso Fajardo de Tenza. Felipe III; December 13.

_Sources_: All of these documents, except the second, fourth, and
eighth, are obtained from the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The
second and fourth are from the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid;
and the eighth from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid.

_Translations_: The second and fourth are translated by Herbert
E. Bolton, Ethel Z. Rather, and Mattie A. Austen, of the University
of Texas; the eighth by Robert W. Haight; and the remainder by James
A. Robertson.

Reforms Needed in the Filipinas (concluded)

Aid against the Dutch requested

Sire:

Hernando de los Rios Coronel, procurator-general of the Filipinas
Islands and of all their estates, declares that he came the past
year to inform your Majesty and your royal Council of the Indias,
in the name of those islands, of the desperate condition to which the
Dutch enemy have brought them. Desiring that your Majesty understand
the importance of the matter, he gave you a long printed relation in
which he discussed points important for their recovery from the enemy
and the expulsion of the latter from that archipelago. Your Majesty,
upon seeing it, ordered a fleet to be prepared; but that fleet was so
unfortunate as to be lost before beginning its voyage. Although your
Council of the Indias is discussing the formation of another fleet to
sail by way of the Strait of Magallanes, or by the new strait [_i.e._,
of Le Maire], it cannot, if it leaves here any time in July (which is
the earliest time when it can be sent from Espana) possibly arrive
[at Filipinas] until one and one-half years from now--or a little
less, if it has no bad luck. Now considering the watchfulness of the
enemy, and the forces that they a