User:Wtmitchell/Treaty of Cebu

Firstly, Tupas, Lord of Cebu, and the chiefs of his town submit, oblige, and place themselves under the lordship and royal crown of Don Philip the Second of Spain, our Lord, and make themselves his vassals, promising always to be faithful to his service and never to go against him for any cause, and to keep his royal commands as their lord and king, and to obey those of his governors who come to these islands in his royal name, whom they will receive, each and whenever they may come to their island and town, in grievance or in pleasure, in peace or in war, without any resistance or opposition, which they promise for themselves and for their decendents who may come after them, under the penalties that may be imposed and incurred in case of treachery and treason to their king and lord.

Next, that the chief who killed Pedro de Arana by treachery, one of the Governor's own men, is not included in this amnesty and peace until such time as he appear to answer for it, whose punishment is reserved for the Governor alone, and the said Tupas and the other chiefs having heard it and fully understood by means of the interpreters, they said that they so agreed and promise and obligated themselves to comply, and offered that if they were able to lay hands on the chief who killed Pedro de Arana, they would bring him to be punished, and besides everything referred to above, which is essential, they promised to keep the following articles.

Next, if Tupas and the others of his island and town asked the Governor's favor and his men's aid against any indio enemies of thiers with whom they were at war, the Governor should be obligated to give them all favor and aid; and that the said Tupas and the other chiefs, if the Governor should ask it of them, should be obligated to accompany him against his enemiesand that of all persons who were siezed in actions in which the indios and Spanish took part together, two equal divisions should be made, the one for the Governor and the Spaniards and the other for Tupas as his natives who took part in such expedition.

Next, that if some indio of these islands should commit some crime against some Spaniard, the said Tupas and chiefs should be obligated to sieze him and bring him before the Governor so that he might give him the punishment which his crime warrented, and that if some Spaniard should cause some harm or offense against the natives, or take something from them, the said chiefs should give notice of it to the Governor and tell him who it was so that his lordship might punish him and make restitution for it, if it were in his power to do so.

Next, that if some slave or othr person should flee from the camp of the Spaniards, or go into the interior where the indios are and live, the said chiefs and natives should be obligated to sieze and bring them before the Governor, and similarly, if some indio or india, free or slave, should come to the camp of the Spaniards, from the said indios, the Governor promises to order him returned and surrendered, in such wise that neither party should deceive the other or hide anything at all.

Next, that the said natives, neither now nor at any other point in time, shall be able to enter the Royal Camp of the Spaniards with any kind of arms, under pain of the offender's being punished.

Next, the chiefs and natives shall be obligated to sell the Spaniards from all the provisions they have from their crops at prices they are worth among themselves, without there being any change in them, and similarly, the Governor orders that they be given the goods which are brought from Spain at moderate prices, and that after the prices are once fixed, it shall not be possible to increase them, either by one party or the other.

All of which conditions and articles, and each one of them, the said Tupas and the said chiefs of the said island and town of Cebu stated that they accepted for themselves and in the name of the other chiefs who were absent, and that they would so keep them and comply with them, in all and everything that is contained in them, and that if they should transgress them or any part of them, the Governor should punish them; all of which he, in the same way in the name of his majesty, promised to keep and comply with in all that has been stated above.

All of which is agreed to before the said Fernando Riquel, government notary, to which he attested.