Volume 35 — TRADE WITH ENGLISH NOT DESIRED
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[Signed in paraph]
[Endorsed: “+ In Madrid, January 30, 1647.” “The Council of State, in which Don Francisco de Melo and the Marquis de Valparayso concur in regard to the response of Don Alonso de Cardenas, respecting his orders as to declining the proposition that was made by English merchants of Eastern India for trade in the port of Manila and other ports in the Philipinas.”
“Let it be so.”—Evidently the instruction of the king, which is signed in paraph.]
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · The East India Company of England (formed in 1600) encountered great opposition and hindrances in its early history; they had to compete witNote 2 · An oversight of the writer; Bantam is in Java, not Sumatra.Note 3 · Don Alonso de Cardenas, in a letter to your Majesty of November 23 of last year, states that your Majesty was pleased to have him informed i