encomenderos

The Indians were put under the care and protection of Spanish officials called encomenderos, but these in fact, in most cases, were merciless exploiters of the natives who, furthermore, were subject to many local disabilities.

Simon Bolivar the Liberator Sherwell, Guillermo A 1921

The restitution to be made by the encomenderos is a matter to be decided by the secular rather than the religious authorities; and such restitution need be only one-fourth of previous collections.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884

They were helpful in reversing the dispersal of a native population overwhelmed by ravaging disease and the harsh treatment of encomenderos.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

In return, the encomenderos provided the teaching and ministrations of Catholicism, instruction in the Spanish language, food, and defense.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

Considered wards of the Crown and the Church, the law required that legal authorities, the clergy and the encomenderos protect their welfare.

Mexico's Colonial Era - Part 2 2007

Considered wards of the Crown and the Church, the law required that legal authorities, the clergy and the encomenderos protect their welfare.

Mexico's Colonial Era - Part 2 2007

The encomenderos 'increasing control over the Indian population moved the crown to regulate the system.

b. Administration 2001

Majesty to have charge of them than the encomenderos, for they are so near the Indians that they never fail to gather in a harvest of some kind -- either in services, or some other thing.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. James Alexander Robertson 1906

It has more than fifteen thousand souls, and belongs to four encomenderos:

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906

With this he closes the letter in which he gives his opinion of what I should have done -- concluding by advising that, before allowing the encomenderos to collect the tributes, I should investigate or make inquiries about their good or bad treatment of the Indians and how they treat, caress, and regale them.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906