Investigations at Manila concerning trade with Macan. Melchor
de Baeça, and others; May 23-November 19.


_Sources_: All but two of these documents are obtained from original
MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The papal decree is
found in Hernaez's _Colección de bulas_, i, p. 108; the account of
encomiendas is taken from Retana's _Archivo del bibliófilo filipino_,
iv, pp. 41-111.

_Translations_: Such part of the first document as appears in
this volume is translated by Norman F. Hall; the second is by
Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A., of Villanova College; the third and
fifth, by James A. Robertson; the fourth, by Herman G. A. Brauer,
of the University of Wisconsin; the sixth, by José M. and Clara
M. Asensio; the seventh, by Henry B. Lathrop, of the University of
Wisconsin; the eighth, by Alfonso de Salvio, of Harvard University.





The Collection of Tributes in the Filipinas Islands (_concluded_)


Letter from the Bishop to the Governor

_Jesus_

Inasmuch as your Lordship wrote to me at San Francisco del Monte that