He has done all in his power to aid the seminary for orphan boys at Manila, but it needs more; and he asks the king to grant an encomienda in support of this charity.
Captain Pedro de Navarrete was granted the encomienda of natives in the villages of Tabuco and its subjects, in the province of La Laguna de Vay, which was vacated by the death of Captain Don Luis Enrriquez de Guzman.
In virtue of that, your Majesty's fiscal is at present petitioning before the royal Audiencia for the revenues of a certain encomienda given to a citizen.
Captain Francisco de la Haya was granted the encomienda of natives at Lobo and Galban, and their dependencies, in the province of Balayan, which was vacated by the demise and death of Don Joseph Arnalte.
That the encomienda given was well done, under the conditions that existed.
In order that this enterprise may go on increasing for the service of God and of your Majesty, will you order that an encomienda be given to us.
DLXX pesos It possesses what your Lordship assigned it in the encomienda of Bondoy Moron, which, it is thought, will amount to more than eight hundred or nine hundred pesos.
One island is an encomienda under the control of his Majesty, and is said to contain one thousand men.
The fathers remonstrate against the proposal to allow the holder of a small encomienda to collect more than he may who has a large one, as unjust and dangerous.
The Audiencia placed this encomienda to the account of your royal crown; for, although your governor was ordered twice to do so, according to the ordinances of first consideration and revision, he would not comply.
The Indians are not bound to support the encomendero; that is due him for his services to the king, who gives him the encomienda for this purpose, and for means to carry out the obligations of the king to the Indians.
If the encomienda is governed with justice, its holder may in reason collect the other three-fourths.
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.
In reality the value of the encomienda would be given to them, minus the cost of collection; and the instruction, would be much better paid, although this latter is regulated as carefully as possible.
In this way, something will be done; for an encomienda cannot be pacified with only one soldier, paid by an encomendero.
The encomienda was awarded immediately to Juan de Echevarria and Antonio de Endaya.
In this suit the fiscal proceeded against Dona Juana Leal and Francisco de Rebolledo, residents of Mexico, for possession of an encomienda held in the Philippines.
Helps states that the encomienda system "remained in full force until the reign of Charles The Third of Spain, at which period, it appears, it was annulled.
As already stated, the law of Malines reserved for the Council of the Indies final action in all encomienda suits involving more than one thousand ducats.
The earliest case noted in this connection was prosecuted in 1580 by the asesor of the governor against Dona Lucia de Loaxa, the widow of an encomendero, with the object of dispossessing her of an encomienda held at Butuan, Mindanao.
The cofradia had held this encomienda for ten years, and on its petition the governor made this additional concession, subject to royal confirmation (A.
But abuses arose and the encomienda system was gradually abolished.
A few of these functionaries were appointed, but the colonists raised such a cry that little change was accomplished, and the Audiencia confined itself, in this particular, to checking abuses of the encomienda system.
This provision contained the essence of the encomienda system, which was designed to protect and civilize the native, as well as to exploit him.
Las Casas and others continued to oppose theencomienda system.
He had come to the Indies as a layman, had held an encomienda after becoming a priest, but in 1514 had renounced it.
The encomienda lasts, according to the royal laws and decrees, and by the regular order and manner of succession to them, for two lives; but it may be extended to a third life, by permission.
Footnote 3: The system of encomienda conferred feudal rights upon the discoverers.
The encomienda of Balayan has six hundred men, with one encomendero; one corregidor is appointed here, who receives a salary of one hundred and fifty pesos.
The right of holding anencomienda was granted, regularly for two generations, except in New Spain, where, on account of the very unusual services rendered by the conquerors, it was granted for three and even four generations.
What was accomplished in the villages of the encomienda of Taitai up to the year fifteen hundred and ninety-seven.
In January of the year fifteen hundred and ninety-two, one of us two who were employed at Taitai had to depart for the island of Panai to give instruction and continue the work of conversion in the encomienda of Tigbauan.
The income which your Majesty orders me to give to Don Miguel de Legaspi, grandson of the former Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, I have now given him, assigning him an encomienda with what appeared to be a sufficient number of Indians.
The result is that it is a marvel if an encomienda is ever vacant; for none has been regarded as vacant unless the possessor has died without being married or without issue.
U091 In the encomienda of Mindoro, there are two thousand and ninety-one tributes.
U275 In theencomienda of Calilaya there are two hundred and seventy-five tributes, or a like number of pesos.
This encomienda is at the present time in his possession.
U711 In the encomienda of Tuley and Maragondon there are seven hundred and eleven tributes, or a like number of pesos.
In the encomienda of the villages of San Miguel and San Francisco, in Laguna de Bay, there are eight hundred and five tributes, or a like number of pesos.
U894 In the encomienda of Lumban, Pacte, and Longos in the said Laguna, there are eight hundred and ninety-four tributes.
U624 In the encomienda of Panay and Oton there are three thousand six hundred and twenty-four tributes at one peso.
In the province of Cibu, his Majesty owns the encomienda of the island of Compot and Cagayan, the tribute of which has not been collected for three years, as it is in revolt.
Thence they came to the river of Panay, an encomienda assigned to the royal crown, and killed a great many more, taking six hundred more prisoners from the said encomiendas.
Your Excellency will also decide if the regranting in encomienda of the villages which became vacant, and were in his Majesty’s hands, has been proper.
Hunger and famine had descended upon Pampanga, and on the encomienda of Guido de Lavazares over a thousand had died from starvation.
There was a single encomienda in Butuan, Mindanao, and another on the Caraga coast.
On this instruction, Legaspi had given the Filipinos in encomienda to his captains and soldiers as fast as the conquest proceeded.
In 1591, however, the Babuyanes had been given in encomienda to Esteban de la Serna and Francisco Castillo.
With that the former will have received a goodly part of the income that your Majesty orders me, by a royal decree that he presented to me, to give him in unassigned Indians or in those of an encomienda which may become vacant.
The system of giving the Indians in encomienda and repartimiento is absolutely contrary to the royal commands issued by Queen Isabella to Columbus and his successors during her reign.
Madrid) At this time a movement was set on foot by the Spanish colonists in America to obtain from the Crown the establishment of the encomienda system in perpetuity.
Men who argued such as the Bishop of Burgos and Lope Conchillos, were large holders of encomienda properties, who objected to having their sources of income disturbed.
The outcome was that while the settling of the encomienda problem was indefinitely postponed, authorization was promptly given for a supply of bozal negroes.
As a commutation of tribute and as a means of promoting the conversion of the Indians there was soon inaugurated the encomienda system which afterward spread throughout Spanish America.
The king, in order to make it easier for him to exercise his humane acts, gave him an encomienda in the province of Ilocos.
For that purpose his Majesty granted him an encomienda in Ylòcos for the support of the said boys.
Consequently, theencomienda of that large island was very desirable.
They ask for a garrison of three hundred paid troops, and the grant of an encomienda to the city of Manila.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encomienda" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
