The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 / 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

by Antonio Pigafetta

DOCUMENTS OF 1565–1576

• [Letter to Felipe II.] Guido de Lavezaris; May 30, 1565.
• [Letter to Felipe II.] Andres de Mirandaola; 1565.
• [Letter to Felipe II.] Guido de Lavezaris; July 25, 1567.
• [Letter to Felipe II from the royal officials.] Guido de Lavezaris, and others; July 26, 1567.
• [Letter to the Marquis de Falces.] Martin de Rada, O.S.A.; July 8, 1569.
• [Letter to Felipe II.] Diego de Herrera, O.S.A.; July 25, 1570.
• [Royal communications to and concerning Legazpi.] Felipe II; August 6, 1569-August 29, 1570.
• [Letter to the viceroy of Nueva España.] Francisco de Ortega, O.S.A.; June 6, 1573.
• [Augustinian memoranda.] [Unsigned and undated, but probably compiled by the Augustinian missionaries, ca. 1573.]
• [Letter to the viceroy of Nueva España, Martin Enriquez.] Martin de Rada; June 30, 1574.
• [Letter to Felipe II, from the royal officials.] Andres Cauchela and Salvador de Aldave; July 17, 1574.
• [Encomiendas assigned by Legazpi.] Hernando Riquel; June 2, 1576.

Sources: These documents are all obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla, except the last which is translated from Pastells’s edition of Colin’s Labor evangélica, i, pp. 157, 158.

Translations: These are all by James Alexander Robertson except the eighth, which is by Henry B. Lathrop.