Doc. 16. Spain—Portugal
The treaty concluded on April 22, ratified by the Emperor on the following day and by the King of Portugal more than a year later, was disliked in Spain. As late as 1548, the Cortes petitioned the Emperor that the whole realm should redeem the Moluccas in order that Spain might have the benefit of their spice-trade, if only for six years.[1]
By the terms of the treaty of Saragossa, the Philippine Islands fell within the Portuguese demarcation; and when, in 1542-1543, Ruy Lopez de Villalobos led a colonizing expedition thither from New Spain, the Portuguese governor of the Moluccas protested vigorously, demanding his withdrawal on the ground that his occupation of the Philippines violated the aforesaid treaty.[2] In 1568 a fruitless protest was made against Legazpi's colonization;[3] in 1580 Spain's annexation of the Portuguese crown quieted the dispute. Upon the separation of the crowns in 1640, however, as the Portuguese claimed, "the conditions of the Deed of Saragossa gave rise to a new title by which Portugal [might] claim restitution of or equivalent for all that the Spaniards had occupied to the west" of the line fixed by this treaty.[4] The controversy was not ended until 1750, when, by the first and second articles of a Spanish-Portuguese treaty signed at Madrid, it was stipulated that the demarcation lines provided for in the bull of Alexander VI[5] and
- ↑ B. Leonardo de Argensola, Conquista de las Islas Malucas (1609), pp. 46, 47. F. López de Gómara, Annals of the Emperor Charles V. (ed. R. B. Merriman, 1912), p. 138, and note 4, same page.
- ↑ Colección de Documentos Inèdītos relativos al Descubrimiento . . . de Ultramar [Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid), 2d ser. tom. 11. (1886), pt. l., pp. 66-94. A. de Morga, Philippine Islands (Hakluyt Soc., no. XXXIX., 1868), app. V., pp. 394-396.
- ↑ J. A. Robertson, "Legazpi and Philippine Colonization", in Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the year 1907 (1908), p. 154.
- ↑ Preamble to the treaty of Madrid, 1750, translated in the Statements submitted by the United States of Brazil to the President of the United States of America as arbitrator . . . between Brazil and the Argentine Republic (1894), III. 5.
- ↑ Doc. 7.
