2. Letters from Juan Nino de Tavora, 1629.—­“Simancas—­Secular; cartas y espedientes del gobernador de Filipinas vistos en el Consejo; Audiencia de Filipinas; anos de 1629 a 1639; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 8.”

3. Letters from Juan Nino de Tavora, 1630.—­The same as No. 2.

The following document is obtained from Pastells’s edition of Colin’s Labor evangelica: 

4. Decree regarding missions.—­In vol. iii, p. 686.

The following document is taken from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library): 

5. Relation of 1629-30.—­In vol. i, pp. 617-625.

6.  Medina’s Historia de la orden de S. Agustin is partly translated in full, partly synopsized, from a copy of the printed work in the possession of the Editors.

NOTES

[1] See Vol. xxii, p. 128.

[2] See, post, the statements of the fiscal at Madrid regarding the various points of this letter.  His examination was made and his opinions noted before the decrees of the Council were given.

[3] Referring to the Dutch East India Company, formed by the consolidation (1602) of the various trading companies in the Orient, by the States-General of Holland.  This was for many years one of the richest and most successful of the world’s great commercial associations; but in the eighteenth century its condition became one of decline.  When Holland and Belgium were conquered by France, in 1795, the Dutch East India Company was practically abolished.  Thereafter, until 1808, the Dutch Indias were administered by a committee of the States-General, and in the latter year their government was formally vested in the Dutch nation, which has from that time retained it.

[4] Spanish vandala:  a Filipino word, signifying a forcible assessment on the natives for government supplies—­i.e., a repartimiento; see explanation in Retana’s Zuniga, ii, p. 532*.  For later and different use of the word, see Zuniga’s text (ut supra), i, p. 325.

[5] Alluding to the floods which, as often in former years, had recently inundated a part of the valley in which lies the City of Mexico.  In 1627 heavy rains caused the bursting of the dams that confined the Quauhtitlan River, and parts of the city were overflowed.  The same experience was repeated in 1629, but to such an extent that the entire city was under water, in most places more than five feet deep.  It was more than four years before the city was freed from this calamity, and not until 1634 was this accomplished for the valley, by a series of earthquake shocks.  See Bancroft’s account of these floods, and the drainage works undertaken to prevent them, in his Hist.  Mexico, iii, pp. 7-11, 85-91.

[6] The petition here addresses the governor instead of the king.

[7] See Vol.  VIII, pp. 127, 133, where the encomiendas of Butuan and Oton are mentioned as held by Dona Lucia de Loarca.  This would indicate that Silva’s wife was a granddaughter of Miguel de Loarca, and that her father was a son of the latter.