What major events is occurring during the time of this text"...We command that with regard to the lading of the said Indians the Audiencias take especial care that they be not laden, or in case that in some parts this cannot be avoided that it be in such a manner that no
risk of life, health and preservation of the said Indians may ensue from an immoderate burthen; and that
against their own will and without their being paid, in no case be it permitted that they be laden,
punishing very severely him who shall act contrary to this. In this there is to be no remission out of
respect to any person.
We command that from all those persons who hold Indians without proper title, having entered into
| possession of them by their own authority, such Indians be taken away and be placed under our Royal
CrownAnd because we are informed that other persons, although possessing a sufficient title, have had
an excessive number of Indians allotted to them, We order that the Audiencias, each in its jurisdiction
diligently inform themselves of this, and with all speed, and reduce the allotments made to the said
persons to a fair and moderate quantity, and then place the rest under our Royal Crown... So also, The
said Audiencias are to inform themselves how the Indians have been treated by the persons who have
held them in encomienda, and if it be clear that in justice they ought to be deprived of the said Indians for
their excesses and the ill-usage to which they have subjected them. We ordain that they take away and
place such Indians under our Royal Crown."