in nine years they have not brought in 20U pesos.  This has been due to negligence; for if there had been a faithful administrator posted there, and his accounts had been audited, and affairs had been orderly and regular (as they are with the enemy), your Majesty might have secured [sufficient] profit to maintain those forces without expending anything from your royal exchequer, as you now do.  The same argument applies from now on.  On this account it is very important to your royal service either that correction be applied to this, or that some means be considered, which it does not appear to me expedient to place in this relation, to spare your Majesty so great an expense.  When those islands are secure from the Dutch enemy, your Majesty will suffer no expense, and will be able to further the working of the above-mentioned mines which lie near Manila.  From them, with the favor of God, so great wealth may be looked for as will suffice to clear your Majesty from debt, and this can be accomplished in no other way; for with the ordinary practice, which has prevailed thus far, there is no more hope than for a sick man declared past recovery, to whom the physicians give no remedies, and whom they declare to be at the end of his life.

Bibliographical Data

The documents of the present volume are from various sources (all manuscript except No. 9).  The following are from the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla: 

1. Reforms needed—­See Bibliographical Data, Vol.  XVIII, No. 12.

2. Decrees ordering reforms of religious.—­“Audiencia de Filipinas; registros de oficios y partes; reales ordenes dirigidas a las autoridades y particulares del distrito de la Audiencia; anos 1605 a 1645; est. 105, caj. 2, leg. 12.”

3. Compulsory service.—­“Simancas—­Eclesiastico; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes de religiosos misioneros de Filipinas vistos en el Consejo; anos 1617 a 1642; est. 68, caj. 1, leg. 38.”

4. Letter from Audiencia.—­“Simancas—­Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas cartas y expedientes del presidente y oydores de dicha Audiencia vistos en al Consejo; anos 1607 a 1626; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 20.”

5. Letter from Fajardo.—­“Simancas—­Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes del gobernador de Filipinas vistos en el Consejo; anos 1600 a 1628; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 7.”

The following are obtained from MSS. in the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid; all are in the collection “Papeles de los Jesuitas:” 

6. Letter to Escovar.—­“Tomo 129, num. 153.”

7. Relation of 1619-20.—­“Tomo 112, num. 55.”

The following is from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid: 

8. Letter to Fajardo.—­“Cedulario Indico, tomo 38, folio 101, num. 80.”

9. Memorial, y relacion para sv magestad (Madrid, 1621), by Hernando de los Rios Coronel.—­This is translated and synopsized from the copy in the Library of Congress.