Volume 8 — Two Letters from Dasmarinas to Felipe II
Reading edition
Sire:
Gomez Perez Dasmarinas
[Addressed: “To the king, our sovereign.”]
[Endorsed: “To His Majesty, 1592. Gomez Perez Dasmariñas. June 6.” “A place has already been given him as alcalde of Mexico, although the Page 239matters reported in this letter are not remedied thereby.”]
[Accompanying the letter, and on a separate fold of paper, is the following:]
Register of merchandise carried in the ship “Sant Felippe”
I, Juan de Cuellar, notary of mines and registers, certify that, in the galeon “Sant Felippe” now ready to set sail for Nueva España, from the port of Cavite, this present year of five hundred and ninety-one, the persons named below are exporting the following bales and boxes of merchandise:
Bales Boxes
Don Frai Domingo de Salazar, bishop of the Philippinas, fifteen bales and thirty-three boxes. xv xxxiii
The president Santiago de Vera, with the others contained in his memorandum, sixty bales and twenty-nine boxes. lx xxix
Pedro Herrandez, for the licentiate Rojas, former auditor of the royal Audiencia, and present counselor, etc., nineteen bales and four boxes. xix iiii
The auditor Don Antonio de Rribera Maldonado, fifty-two bales and twenty boxes. lii xx
The licentiate Ayala, fiscal, twenty-seven bales and seventeen boxes. xxvii xvii
The dean of Manila cathedral, in the said vessel and in that of Juan Pablo, thirteen bales and seven boxes. xiii vii Page 240
Estevan Gonzales, canon of the said church, five bales and three boxes. v iii
The licentiate Herver del Corral, visitor of the royal Audiencia of Manila, eighteen bales and one box. xviii i
The schoolmaster of the Manila cathedral, six bales. vi
Father Cervantes, ecclesiastic, three bales and six boxes. iii vi
The beneficiary Juan Gutierrez, two boxes. ii
Father Rodrigo de Morales, ecclesiastic, three bales. iii
Father Crisanto de Tamayo, ecclesiastic, two bales. ii
Benito Gutierrez, ecclesiastic, two bales. ii
And in order that this might be evident, I give the present, signed with my name and the usual flourishes. Given in Manila, June four, one thousand five hundred and ninety-one.
Juan de Cuellar, notary of registers.
Sire:
Gomez Perez Dasmarinas
[Endorsed: “Manila. To his Majesty. 1592. Gomez Perez Dasmarinas. June 11.”] Page 244