One of these encomenderos has for his share less than three hundred Indians, and many five and six hundred, and as very few have over a thousand, especially are they in need where goods are so dear and gold is valued so slightly.
The "Opinion" states that the encomenderos can be supported with the one maes that each Indian gives every year.
The encomenderos urged that the governor should make the number of each repartimiento equal to the list.
It is very certain that no one can be supported on so small a tribute, because there are many encomenderos who cannot be supported on a tribute of three maes, and they live in great poverty, through having so few Indians.
He had encounters with the admiral, for rarely do these fail between the encomenderos and missionaries.
I expect that this expedition will include the foregoing vessels and galleys on account of your Majesty; and that in addition there will go seven or eight other ships belonging to private encomenderos and other persons.
The assessment which was made accompanies this letter; and therewith will cease many wrongs which have been inflicted upon the natives, and the encomenderos and collectors can satisfy their consciences, if they desire.
The encomenderos declare that your Majesty should meet this expense, and are sending documents on the subject.
He recommends that the matter of granting offices to small encomenderos be further examined.
The encomenderos resent his enforcement of the royal decree that they should furnish to the priests who instruct their Indians wine for celebrating mass.
Your Majesty has commanded that no one shall enjoy any positions of profit in these islands without being resident here; and that if encomenderos are absent they shall not receive the tributes.
Until this matter is determined, we shall collect the amount imposed by the said adelantado, for most of the encomenderos have less than one thousand Indians.
Many injuries have been and are still practiced on the Indians by the Spaniards or by their encomenderos themselves.
This document shows 143 encomenderos whose names are expressed in it.
Salazar (ut supra) allows but eight encomenderos to this district.
The encomenderosonly bleed, but do not protect their natives.
Many of the encomenderos stay in their encomiendas all or the greater part of the year looking after their interests, where they prove a great hindrance and obstacle to their Indians.
In the Philippines, encomenderos had sometimes as many as one thousand two hundred natives.
He ordered that the number of Indians sufficient to equip the galleys [283] be purchased from those who were the slaves of other Indian chiefs, and that the Spanish encomenderos should pay for these men from their own money.
A letter from Felipe II to Bishop Domingo de Salazar shows the awful tyranny exercised by the encomenderos upon the natives, whose condition was worse than that of slaves.
The datos, vilangos, and fiscals make the division, collect, and take these supplies from the natives; and in the same manner they supply their encomenderoswhen these go to make the collections.
He promised that the sum spent by the encomenderos for that purpose would be repaid afterward from the royal exchequer.
The encomenderos have made great profits in collecting in kind, for, after they acquired possession of the products, they sold them at higher prices.
This was to be collected by the encomenderos at the same time when they collected the eight reals of the tribute, and was to be delivered and placed in the royal treasury.
In most of the provinces no census has been taken, and the tributes are collected when due by the encomenderos and their collectors, through the chiefs of their encomiendas, by means of the lists and memoranda of former years.
The rapidity with which many of these encomenderos amassed great wealth in a few years is known, and that they left colossal fortunes at their death.
Fifty leagues from this island of Mindanao lies the island of Jolo, which has been given over to encomenderos these many years.
The services rendered to the natives by the king and the encomenderos are enumerated; even those which are secular help to maintain religious instruction, and are also more costly than that; they should then be well recompensed.
Why, then, should we fear that the encomenderos will leave their encomiendas, even if they are ordered to collect no more than the third part of the tributes?
The encomenderos shall maintain their residence, and, as your Lordship justly suggests, shall provide a good example and fair treatment toward the Indians of their encomiendas.
And the said encomenderos are responsible for all the injuries and evils referred to in the said conclusion, if through their fault there are not ministers to do what should be done.
To maintain justice for the Spanish who reside among them, it would seem to be sufficient to have a governor, as there always has been, since there are not more than one hundred encomenderos and seven hundred soldiers here.
At this same time, he sent word to all the encomenderos or seigniors of the villages of those islands called Pintados, ordering them to assemble at the same place with as many ships and men as possible, both Spaniards and natives.
All, including the encomenderos themselves, desire that this matter be cleared up; but the royal Audiencia did not care to meddle with it, as it is a matter of tributes, and pertains solely to his Majesty.
The encomenderos depend upon the Chinese for clothing and food, and for the opportunity to dispose of the goods received from the Indians as tributes.
The king is asked to compel the encomenderos to give religious instruction to their Indians.
More religious instructors are needed; and, in order to support them, more tribute should be required from the Indians, and the encomenderos should be compelled to pay tithes.
He has assessed on the encomenderos and other citizens and on the Indians the expenses of these works.
That manyencomenderos do not furnish ministers of instruction.
Moreover, by this means the encomenderos and settlers of those islands get a profit out of the customs, trade, and commerce, because from their tributes and profits they derive a good income.
Within the corregimientos were Indian partidos, each under a native alcalde, subject to the encomenderos or the missionaries.
Encomenderos were required to equip themselves for defense and to promote agriculture.
Other encomenderos looked to him as their protector against the royal officials and induced him to conspire for an independent crown.
At these were present your Majesty's fiscal, the assessor of the government, and two encomenderos in the name of the others, and I conferred with them on the most important points.
The other encomenderos give the same to the ministers of their encomiendas.
It has but few inhabitants now, because the encomenderos of that district go to Manila and desert it.
Hence it is very desirable that the encomenderos do as they are here commanded, and not wait for the religious or ecclesiastics, who can not do it with the same facility as can the encomenderos.
Being therefore the most important people in these islands, the adelantado Miguel Lopez de Legazpi allotted the islands of Cagayan to the encomenderos of Negros Island.
The encomenderos refuse to pay tithes, and the royal officials say that they have no instructions to pay the bishop; he is thus greatly straitened in means, and can do but little to aid the unfortunate natives or the poor Spaniards.
It belongs to one of the encomenderos of Çubu, and is within the jurisdiction of that city.
The encomenderos to whom Mindanao has been assigned ought to aid in its subjugation, and should be sent at once with troops to the island.
The estate of the temporal [12] encomenderos would be managed for them at less cost than they themselves would incur therein, and all the tributes would be collected without any care or trouble on their part.
Encomenderos and citizens are not to leave the islands without permission, on pain of confiscation of encomiendas.
Spanish, encomenderos temporales; apparently referring to grants of encomiendas made for a limited time, or to those which were held subject to an annual pension.
These, as well as the encomenderos of Leyte, above mentioned, have repartimientos of Indians in other places.
Through false representations the encomenderos have remained behind, instead of coming here on this pacification.
All the captains and soldiers of this camp perform their duties grumblingly, since the encomenderos enjoy the fruits of their labor.
It is advisable, for the relief of the conscience of those encomenderos and the royal conscience of your Highness, that ministers be furnished.
Their encomenderos are twelve in number, and the Indians in their encomiendas, ten thousand four hundred, or more than forty thousand souls.
The country is in rebellion, but it is true that the encomenderos gave cause for the disturbance by oppressing the natives with tributes, and in other ways.
These encomenderos conceal in great part the amount of the tributes collected by them, and show only partial lists of the collections.
The writer advises that the usual inspection of encomenderos and officials be made by the prelates of the church, rather than, as hitherto, by laymen appointed by the governor.
Two or three encomenderos only have sent their attendants; and they might as well not have sent them, because they have not provided them with provisions and supplies, but the king has had to furnish them.
The encomenderos are extortionate and fraudulent, take law into their own hands, and fail to provide religious instruction for the Indians.
There were almost a hundred men with a captain in the island of Çubu, and seventy more in Ylocos under Juan de Saucedo, who had gone thither to form a settlement, since these men were the encomenderos of that province.
With fewer or none of these judges there would be more justice; and if the encomenderos or collectors of tributes were not present in villages, the Indians would be better guarded.
The said Indians shall not pay other encomenderos, nor shall such encomenderos collect any tribute from them, under penalty of returning to the said Indians what they shall have collected from them.
There will be a strange alteration when Antichrist is dead, and that both in the church, and in the world.
Now will be broken up those prophecies and promises that to this day lie as under lock and key, and that cannot be opened until they be fulfilled.
Then there shall no more be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord: no lion shall be there; the unclean shall no more tread in the paths of God's people, but the ransomed of the Lord shall walk there.
This would include the power of appointing encomenderos in the name of the king.
Under the conditions outlined above, the encomenderos were permitted to forget the benign purposes for which they had been originally entrusted with the care and protection of the natives.
Encomenderos were not to leave the Islands on pain of confiscation of their encomiendas.
Aside from the very intimate relationship of the encomenderos as the guardians of the Indians in spiritual and temporal things, they were not considered as officials in the same sense as were the alcaldes mayores and corregidores.
The offending encomenderos were brought to Manila and tried by Bishop Salazar, who temporarily deprived them of their holdings and sentenced them to imprisonment and fines (Governor to the King [day and month not given], A.
The visitor was provided with sufficient funds to defray his expenses, so that he would not be a burden on the encomenderos or Indians.
As an example of this we may refer to the work of the Augustinians in bringing to the light of judicial scrutiny the abuses of certain encomenderos against the Indians of Mindanao.
The encomenderosruled the Indians in their care with little interference from alcaldes mayores, corregidores, or governors.
The governor, the bishops, and the encomenderos were urgent for those religious to extend their apostolic labors.
The suit that you mention between the bishop and the encomenderos in regard to the tithes, has not yet arrived here.
Dasmariñas has already compelled the encomenderos to refrain from collecting the fourth part of the tax when they do not provide the Indians with religious instruction--a reform which had never been secured until he made it.
I acquainted them, in detailed information, with the reasons for making no innovations until after reporting to your Majesty, and for not restricting the poor encomenderos to such an extent.
In the reply, I solved these difficulties; and have since been waiting to learn what your Lordship has communicated to the encomenderos regarding collections in the encomiendas which are without religious instruction.
It would doubtless be of some benefit, and the lack of instruction of which your Majesty complains would be obviated, if the encomenderoscould furnish it.
The encomenderos will be glad to pay their share of the expense for the support of the instruction, which they do not have in their encomiendas on account of the lack of ministers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encomenderos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
