e exchequer
incurs a debt of eight thousand eight
hundred and thirty-one pesos; usual
debt of the treasury each year VIII U. DCCC. XXXI pesos

The said account does not include extraordinary expenses that arise,
such as the pacification of the natives throughout these islands, and
certain other expeditions, and material for their defense--expenses
that occur each year (especially for the past three years), in this
region. With the aid sent to Maluco, repairs on his Majesty's galleon
which came from that place, the rebuilding of the fort and magazines,
and the buildings which have been erected for the royal Audiencia
and its president and auditors, the said works have cost his Majesty
in all more than thirty thousand pesos in the said three years for
extraordinary expenses, for which sum the royal exchequer is indebted.

Extraordinary expenses for three years, XXX U. pesos

Andres Cauchela
Juan Baptista Roman
Domingo Nerdules

In the city of Manila, in the Philipinas Islands, on the fifteenth
day of June, one thousand five hundred and eighty-four, the honorable
president and auditors of the royal Audiencia established in this said
city stated that, in order that his Majesty might be informed of the
value of provisions and other articles sold in this island, as well
as of the harvests therein and of the supplies that are brought from
Nueva Espana and the realms of Castilla, they gave orders to make,
and they did make, before me the following investigation.

Luis Velez Cherino

And, for the said investigation, the honorable licentiate Rojas,
auditor of the royal Audiencia, took and received an oath before God
and the blessed Mary, and on the sign of the cross and on words of
the holy gospels, from Don Antonio Gofre Carrillo, treasurer of his
Majesty's royal exchequer in this city and the Philipinas islands-under
which obligation he promised to tell the truth. Being asked regarding
the tenor of the title of this inquiry, he said that this witness knows
that every year one or more ships come from Nueva Espana to these
islands for traffic, which bring, as merchandise, velvets, satins,
damasks, taffetas, ribbed cloths in colors, velvet caps, shoes and
stockings, linens from Holland and Rouen, wine, vinegar, oil, olives,
capers, preserves, hams and fat bacon, flour, soap, hats, netted hose,
Cordovan leather, raisins, almonds, and many other articles from the
produce of Espana and Nueva Espan