The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 / 1636-37 / Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

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[8] Empeño: This transfer, as may be seen from the treaty of Zaragoza (vol. 1, pp. 221–239), was part of the sale by Spain to Portugal of the spice-trade, right of navigation, and islands then in dispute between the two crowns; but various stipulations were made regarding it, so that the Maluco Islands were, in a sense, held as a pledge for the observance thereof.

[9] This word is lacking in the manuscript.

[10] At this point occurs a doublet of nine words in the manuscript—simply an error of the transcriber.

[11] See this decree in vol. III, pp. 250, 251.

[12] See this decree, with illustrations, in vol. IX, pp. 211–215.

[13] See Vol. iv, p. 108.

[14] This is the date in the original printed edition, but both the manuscript and the reprint in the Extracto historial give 1626.

[15] At this point there is another lapsus calami by the transcriber of the manuscript, resulting in another reduplication.

[16] Both the manuscript and the Extracto historial reprint say May 16.

[17] See Vol. XX, p. 257.