The law of the Sangleyes (Recopilación, libro VI, título 18)

Thirteen laws on the Chinese of Manila: a cap of six thousand, a court of their own with appeal to the Audiencia, a ten-year tax holiday on conversion, an itemised catalogue of the bribes and swindles Spanish officials worked on Chinese ships, and an order that they be well treated — set beside the judge Antonio de Morga's account of the persecution that preceded the killing of 1603 and the hungry city that followed it.