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 Parián 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 dé Indias, Sevilla--except the fourth, which is

taken from Retana's _Archivo del bibliófilo 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 José M. and Clara M. Asensio.

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