The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; 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, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 2]

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December. Ordered by the king's decree through
the licentiate Francisco Diaz de Amaral, of his desembargo, and corregidor of my court with jurisdiction over criminal affairs, Antonio Ferraz drew up
the same in the year one thousand five hundred and
forty-five, and I, Pero Dalcaceva Carneiro, of the
said Council of the said sovereign, and his secretary and notary-in-chief in all his kingdoms and possessions, countersigned it.
(This compact above preceding and declared was
here copied entire from the copy sent from the
kingdoms, which was signed by the licentiate Francisco Diaz de Amaral mentioned therein, approved
by the chancellor's office, and drawn up by the secretary, Pero Dalcaceva Carneiro and Joao de Figueiroa. Wherefore, coming as it does in the manner above set forth, this copy, which was derived
therefrom and written here, is a true one, without
any thing of a nature to cause doubt save a certain
interlineation reading "within the said line, which
such islands or lands." For, to make the same a true
copy, it was written on thirteen half-sheets of paper
and compared, from beginning to end, by the official
whose name is affixed hereto; and full faith shall be
given the same wherever it shall be presented, in
court or out, in view of the fact that, for greater assurance, it is sealed with the seal of my arms in this
city of Goa on the twenty-third day of April. The
king ordered the same through the licentiate Christova6 Fernandez, member of the desembargo and
auditor-in-chief of India with appellate jurisdiction.
Lopo Daguiar, a notary by office, had the document
written and subscribed, by the authority which he
possesses, in the year of the birth of our Lord Jesus