P. 147, line 7: Consolidations of encomiendas were made, in order to abolish those which were too small, or make a more equitable distribution of the territory comprised in those which were very large. Pensions were also assessed against large encomiendas, although in the laws of the Indias it was ordained that the maximum amount of such pensions should be 2,000 pesos. Apparently the aim of this decree was, to provide that in extending the tenure of the encomiendas and rearranging them the royal officials should also make allowance for the charges against the encomiendas in the way of pensions, so consolidating them as to accord with the decrees of previous years on this subject. Those decrees sought to prevent an encomendero from being deprived of a fair income by the assessment of too many pensions against it (for wives, relatives, or dependents of previous encomenderos of the same district; or for other services to the State, paid for by assigning portions of remunerative encomiendas); and at the same time aimed to restrict the income to be derived from an encomienda, and to make these incomes nearly uniform in value.—James A. Leroy (in a private letter).
VOLUME XXVI
P. 5, line 2 from end: For “July-August” read “March-July.”
P. 269, middle: For “bienzos” read “lienzos.”
VOLUME XXVII
P. 5, line 4: For “Cavite” read “Manila.”
P. 122, middle: The peso ensayado was, according to Lea (Hist. of Inquisition in Spain, i, p. 562), a colonial coin, worth 400 maravedís, equivalent to 11¾ reals, or a little more than a ducado.
P. 146: “The fundamental idea of the commercial and industrial policy of Spain, as carried out through the India House, was that of restriction and privilege.” (Moses, Spanish Rule in America, p. 265.) See Roscher’s comments thereon in his Spanish Colonial System (Bourne’s ed.), p. 35.