Lastly, from 192 captive Indians—men, women, and children—sold as his Majesty’s slaves at royal auction, 20,815 pesos. Of this amount 10,375 pesos were in cash, in coin; and the 10,440 remaining were charged to the pay due the infantry and seamen.
[1] Camaras were tubes or cylinders which received the charge and were introduced into the breech of the cannon, sometimes fitted by pressure, at other times by screwing (see Diego Ufano’s Treatise on military; Brussels, 1617). Some of the ancient pieces of ordnance had these spare chambers, so that, after a charge had been fired, the chamber could be changed and operations carried on more rapidly. Thus they served as do the cartridges of modern breech-loading guns. Some camaras were used independently of the cannon, for firing salutes. See Stanley’s Vasco da Gama (Hakluyt Society publications, London, 1869) pp. 226, 227, note.
Documents of 1639–1640
- [Events in Philipinas, 1638–39.] [Unsigned; probably Juan Lopez, 1639.]
- [Letters to the Holy Misericordia.] Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; December 4, 1637, and October 26, 1639.
- [The university of Santo Tomás.] Felipe IV; November 9, 1639.
- [Royal orders and decrees.] Felipe IV; 1639.
- [Events in the Filipinas Islands, 1639–40.] [Juan Lopez?]; August, 1640.
- [Relation of the insurrection of the Chinese.] [Unsigned and undated; probably in March, 1640.]
- [Ecclesiastical and Augustinian affairs, 1630–40.] Casimiro Diaz; [1718?]. [From his Conquistas.]
- [Relation of the Filipinas Islands.] [Diego de Bobadilla, S.J.; 1640.]
Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from a MS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the second, from a MS. volume in the library of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago; the third, and the eighth decree in the fourth, from the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the fourth (except the above-mentioned decree), from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; the fifth and sixth, from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library); the seventh, from Diaz’s Conquistas, pp. 267–444; the eighth, from Thevenot’s Voyages curieux, t. i, part ii—from a copy belonging to the library of Harvard University.
Translations: These are made by James A. Robertson—except the fifth, sixth, and seventh, and two decrees in the fourth, by Emma Helen Blair.