The other points of your letters are being discussed, and an answer will be sent to you upon the first occasion. Page 293Madrid, January 17, one thousand five hundred and ninety-three.

I The King

By order of the king, our sovereign:

Joan de Ybarra.

Countersigned by the council.

[In the margin, at the beginning of this document: “Reply to Gomez Perez das Marinas, governor and captain-general of the Philippinas Islands.”] Page 294

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