[1] Cf. the three documents (1619–20) by Coronel, on “Reforms needed in the Filipinas,” begun in Vol. XVIII, and concluded in this volume. Felipe III died on March 31, 1621, and was succeeded by his son, Felipe IV, to whom this “Memorial” is now addressed.
[2] That is, “those who had come by a round-about way.”
[3] Various MSS. by Alonso Sanchez are to be found in the archives of different countries, and will be mentioned in the bibliographical volume of this series.
[4] See, however, Morga’s account of this in Vol. XV, pp. 79–92. See Morga also for a full account of the Camboja expeditions.
[5] Thus in the original. A marginal pen correction in faded ink, in the copy from which we translate, reads 608. The Cedulario Indico, consisting of forty-one manuscript volumes of decrees, for the various parts of the Indias, which is preserved in the Archivo Historico Nacional in Madrid, contains a number of decrees of 1608 in regard to the ships from the Philippines.
[6] The decree was of course granted by Felipe II, “your” being used merely as a set phrase to indicate the royal source of the decree.
[7] See Vol. XVI, p. 60, note 31.
[8] April 25, 1610, the fight with Wittert, q.v. Vol. XVII.
[9] See an account of his voyage in Vol. XVII.