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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fleet of the king our lord, and to depart therein in order to present themselves before the viceroy of India. From the said viceroy, in the name of the king
our lord, in my own, and in that of the captains of
this fleet and of the fortresses of India, I give to each
individually, and, to all in general, assurance that no
harm or injury whatsoever shall be done them; that
they shall be left free to go to their own kingdom or
remain in India, as they prefer; and that they shall
receive all possible good treatment, and be given all
their property, and everything of which they may
stand most in need. And if his grace refuse to do
this, I summon him again and many times, and all
the rest of his fleet and army, individually and collectively, to depart at once and leave the said fortress,
and abandon this island and all others which, by the
said treaty, are seen to belong to the commerce and
conquest of the king our lord, and to leave everything
here forever free and disembarrassed. And likewise
I notify them not to do violence to, and to leave
free, the Portuguese who are in his army, to whom,
by this present, I give assurance, in the name of the
king our lord, that they shall not be proceeded against
as criminals, for thus embarking and being in the
said fleet and camp, from the day when they passed
the boundaries of Castella up to the present. And I
summon them all individually and collectively, and
I order them in the name of the king our lord, to
come immediately to this the fleet of their true king
and sovereign, on the above-mentioned assurance
that they shall in all respects be protected. And if
they do not consent thereto, and he, Miguel Lopez
de Leguaspi - and his captains and officers, and all
the persons above-named —shall not, in every re