Its encomendero goes thither each year in the months of February and March for the purpose of collecting his tributes, and, this done, returns to his home in the island of Panay.
He declares that the encomendero has not fulfilled his obligations to the Indians under him by merely reserving a fourth of the tributes for building churches; and advises that the small encomiendas be combined to form larger ones.
In case the encomendero shall collect the tributes beforehand, the governor shall command him to make restitution; and if, for lack of such orders, the Indians shall suffer any wrong, the governor shall be responsible.
I, my Lord, have not the slightest inclination to go to hell merely because the encomendero collects one or two thousand.
Even though instruction exists therein, no tribute, or at least very little, ought to be exacted of the infidels until they have ministers to teach them, and the encomendero influences them to give consent, so that they can be taught.
After I had ordered the encomendero to make the payment, he appealed to the Audiencia, and they retained the suit there, claiming that the property given to beneficiaries in this land is secular.
In Nueva España, when an encomendero dies without an heir, the Indians under his charge revert to the royal crown.
When an encomendero dies in Nueva España, his Indians are allotted to the royal crown of your Majesty, as being in a simple and peaceful country, where there is no need of soldiers.
But theencomendero who has been appointed by the captain-general is obliged to get the confirmation of his grant from Madrid within three years.
He had interfered on behalf of an encomendero who was on trial before the audiencia.
Tavora complained of the action of the audiencia in regard to the disposal of a case involving an encomendero who had married the widow of another encomendero, and who had tried to unite and hold both their encomiendas after marriage.
Among the prisoners who were taken by the Mindanao people last year was Captain Martin de Mendia, a worthy man and an old encomendero in this land.
To each Spaniard selected as an encomendero was allotted a certain quota of Indians bound to cultivate land for his benefit and entitled to receive from him tutelage in civilization and Christianity.
Thus the encomendero was given little economic interest in preserving the lives and welfare of his workmen.
Such limitations as the law still imposed upon encomendero power were made of no effect by the lack of machinery for enforcement.
When now our order came to his country, he took it so ill that he went to Manila to arrange to have the friars withdrawn from his village; and to carry out the negotiation he offered his encomendero half his property, which was considerable.
In the attempt to hold Macao, Corcuera sent over the encomenderoof Pasig, Don Juan Claudio.
At the same time, as the encomenderoand alcaldes mayores engaged in trade sold the articles received as tribute, a market for industrial products was in this wise created which provoked a demand for such merchandise.
This said tribute is so moderate, that with six silver reals, which an Indian gives to his encomendero each year, he pays his tribute entirely.
Therefore eachencomendero received the number for which he petitioned.
Three leagues farther is the valley of Sinay, which is under the same encomendero of Bantay, and has a population of about one thousand six hundred.
What the encomendero does, after having collected his tributes in the manner stated, is to return home; and for another year he neither sees nor hears of them.
In the same province of Temanduque another encomendero has seventy Indians; and it is also an encomienda.
Jaro is under the charge of an encomendero who also holds an encomienda elsewhere; the village is inhabited by five hundred Indians.
Whenever the products and revenues of any encomienda do not suffice for the encomendero and for the instruction, you shall give the preference to the instruction, even though the encomendero be left without resource.
Encomiendas may not be sold or transferred to other holders, but should be made large enough to support both the encomendero and the instruction of the natives.
One encomendero holds five or six islands as an encomienda; and, because they are not easily accessible, these natives are almost without possibility of ever having ministers, or of attaining to a knowledge of God our Lord.
If each encomendero has to live on his encomienda, and the heirs of Estevan Rodriguez in some part of the island, there is nothing left for the captains and soldiers.
The encomendero has taught them a great deal, for many of them know their prayers.
Therefore, when there is not a good supply, but a lack of ministers, the encomendero is not at fault, and has no reason for not collecting his tribute.
According to the order of your Majesty, the widow or child of an encomendero who served in the conquest inherits the encomienda or income.
NOTES [1] An encomendero was a Spanish soldier who as a reward for faithful service was set over a district with power to collect tribute and the duty of providing the people with legal protection and religious instruction.
The encomendero had collected his tribute from these Indians with great care; but he had given no attention to providing them with Christian instruction, as God and the king commanded him.
The Indians, in fear of like severity during the present year, had mutinied against the encomendero and thrust him through with a lance.
This encomendero lost all; and when these misfortunes came upon him, one after the other, he perceived that they did not come by chance, and saw what it was with which the Lord might be angry.
In this same year the Indians of Zimbuey, in the level part of La Yrraya in the same province, rose and murdered their encomendero Luis Henriquez, angered because he had treated them during the previous year with more rigor than was proper.
There lived in that city Captain Alonso de Carvajal, encomendero of Pilitan, which is distant from the city five or more days' journey.
Omens in the earlier times, saintly relics in the later, were held in the highest estimation for the assurance of victory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encomendero" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
