[302] Birch, II, 1007.
[303] Millares, III, 153-7; IV, 19-20.
The exportation of wine from the Canaries to the Indies was an old subject of complaint in the home country. In 1573 the Córtes represented that its profits had caused the abandonment of sugar culture, which had formerly supplied the Spanish sugar market, greatly enhancing its price and deteriorating its quality, while at the same time the flourishing wine-trade was being ruined. In reply to this Philip II only promised to look into the matter and evidently nothing was done at the time.—Córtes de Madrid del año de setenta y tres, Peticion 76 (Alcala, 1575).
[304] Millares, III, 85.
[305] Ibidem, 93-5.
[306] Archivo de Simancas, Canarias, Visitas, Leg. 250, Lib. III, Cuad. 3, fol. 2, 8, 10.
[307] Birch, II, 534-6, 547, 548, 580, 626, 634, 646-61.
[308] Birch, I, 207.
[309] Millares, II, 102.
[310] Birch, I, 416-20.