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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.