rom one another, you maintain friendly
relations and one mind among yourselves, as I have written, being
careful to help, support, and defend one another alike in all needs
and with great harmony and friendship, as it is right for you to do. I
warn you to act in all things according to that trust I place in you,
so that there may be no omission in the affairs committed to you,
for this should be your chief and main aim. Lisboa, March thirty-one,
one thousand five hundred and eighty-two.

_I, The King_

By order of his Majesty:

_Antonio de Herasso_

The King: To Don Gonzalo Rronquillo de Penalosa, my governor and
captain-general of the Philipinas Islands; or, in your absence,
the person or persons who may hold the reins of government. You
understand, from what I have written you before and what I write
now, the causes and reasons why there should be a close and friendly
relation between you and your people dwelling in those islands and
my viceroy of Eastern Yndia, and my governor and captain-general of
Malaca with his Portuguese; and how well served I shall be if, since
you are all on the same footing, and since you are all my vassals,
you deal, communicate, and make friends with one another, and help
one another whenever occasion and need shall arise. There was little
necessity to remind you of this; yet, seeing that it is so important
and so reasonable that things be so, I have decided to recommend the
matter to you, assuring you that I shall be much pleased thereby. If
at any time my viceroy of Yndia, or the governor and captain-general
of Malaca, should write to you asking to send men to his aid, you
will send him the men whom you can spare from those islands, in order
that he may be secure; and do so with the precaution that you shall
find needful. In either case, you will give orders as one who has
the matter at heart, and knows what can and must be done. Since I
trust in you and your prudence, and allow you to send some troops and
captains under similar circumstances, you shall ask the same to obey
and carry out whatever he whom they go to help may say and order,
either in writing or orally, serving him with the good discipline
and obedience to which that nation [the Portuguese] are accustomed,
in the expeditions and military exploits which may take place. Lisboa,
on the thirty-first day of March in the year one thousand five hundred
and eighty-two.

_I, The King_

By order of his Majesty:

_Antonio de