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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2009
In the year 1577 King Philip II of Spain issued a decree to all Spanish officials in the New World ordering them to obtain and send him answers to a questionnaire consisting of fifty searching inquiries, intended to elicit information which would “facilitate the good government and ennoblement” of “the Indies.”
1 Extracted from Official Reports…sent by Francisco de Castañedo to His Majesty Philip II and the Council of the Indies in 1580. Translated and edited…by Zelia Nuttall. Published by the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, vol. ii, No. 2 (Cambridge, Mass.), 1926.