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Letter from Domingo de Salazar to Felipe II
Salazar, Domingo
 
Salazar, Domingo. "Letter from Domingo de Salazar." In The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, translated from the originals, edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. Cleveland, Ohio: A.H. Clark Company, 1903-9. Vol. 5, 1582-1583. Pp. 188-91.
 
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In a letter dated 20 June 1582, Fr. Domingo Salazar, the first bishop of the Philippines, appeals to King Felipe II to redress the local people's sufferings inflicted by some oppressive Spanish alcaldes mayores.  Bishop Salazar  attaches to his letter affidavits prepared by the local chieftains of Tondo, Capaymisilo, Mauban and other villages, enumerating the abuses committed by the alcaldes-mayores and expressing the people's intention to leave their villages or transfer to another encomienda.
Domingo de Salazar, Native chiefs, Tondo, Capaymisilo, Mauban, abuses of alcaldes-mayores, Don Luis Amanicaldo, Don Martin Panga, Don Gabriel Luanbacar, Don Juan Bautangad, Doña Francisca Saygan, Salalila, Calao Amarlenguaguay, 20 June 1852 
 

[Fr. Domingo Salazar’s plea for King Felipe II to help the native Filipinos]
 
(Father Domingo Salazar, King Philip II, Native chiefs of Manila, Mauban and surrounding other places)
Royal Catholic Majesty1:
 
After having written the letters and memoranda which are going to your Majesty, there came some neighboring Indians to this city, who begged me to make known to your Majesty the contents of their testimonial. A few days afterward I told certain of them that they should decide what they wished, and that I would write to your Majesty concerning them—as your Majesty is a most Christian king who considers well their interests, and has commanded that they be well-treated, and will order punishment for those who maltreat them.
 
On the same day, some of the most prominent Indians came, and with them more than forty others from the neighboring villages. They asked from me the things that I have stated elsewhere; and I certify to your Majesty that, if all that they said could be written in this account, it would be but little shorter than the other one which I am sending to your Majesty. Without doubt it would break your Majesty’s heart if you could see them as they are, and how pitiable are their appearance and the things that they relate.
 
Another day there came chiefs from other villages to say the same and much more. Today ten or twelve
 

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