lory be God our Lord's,
that among all the Tagalos not a trace of this is left; and that
those who are now marrying do not even know what it is, thanks to
the preaching of the holy gospel, which has banished it.

Documents of 1590

Letter from Portugal to Felipe II. [Unsigned and undated.]
Decree ordering a grant to Salazar. Felipe II; April 12.
Letter from members of the suppressed Audiencia to Felipe
II. Santiago de Vera, and others; June 20.
The Chinese and the Parian at Manila. Domingo de Salazar;
June 24.
Two letters to Felipe II. Domingo de Salazar; June 24.
Decree regarding commerce in the Philippines. Felipe II;
July 23.

_Sources_: These documents are obtained from the original MSS. in
the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla--except the fourth, which is
taken from Retana's _Archivo del bibliofilo filipino_, iii, pp. 47-80.

_Translations_: The first document is translated by Arthur B. Myrick,
of Harvard University; the second, third, and sixth, by James
A. Robertson; the fourth, by Alfonso de Salvio, of Harvard University;
the fifth, by Isaac J. Cox, of the University of Pennsylvania, and
by Jose M. and Clara M. Asensio.

Letter from Portugal to Felipe II

After the king, our lord, succeeded to the crown of Portugal, there
began to open a new commerce between the Philipinas Islands and the
western Yndias belonging to the domain of Castilla and China, Maluco,
Amboino, Banda, and other parts of the Portuguese conquest. As soon
as this was known in the eastern Yndias, the viceroys and governors
thereof were continually writing to his Majesty, that from this new
commerce many heavy injuries were sustained by his Majesty's service,
in regard to the preservation and support of that state of eastern
Yndia, and the quiet of its inhabitants.

His Majesty after reading their letters and going over truthful
reports of the great injury that the continuation of this new trade
might cause, both to the crown of Castilla and to that of Portugal,
resolved to prohibit anyone from going from the western Yndias to
China, Maluco, Amboino, and Banda, and other places belonging to the
crown of Portugal; or from the Eastern to the Western Yndias. Decrees
for this prohibition, signed by his Majesty and by the Portuguese
ministers, were passed and sent to Yndia, where they were published
and ordered to be observed under heavy penalties. The same was to be
done by the ministers of the crown of Cas