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 1580–1605

• [Letter to the viceroy of Nueva España, Martin Enriquez.] Miguel Loarca; June 15, 1580.
• [Letter to Gregory XIII.] Pablo de Jesus, O.S.F.; 14 Kalends of July, 1580.
• [Bishop Salazar’s Council regarding slaves.] [Notarial document signed by Bishop Domingo de Salazar, O.P.; October 17, 1581.]
• [Erection of Manila cathedral.] Bishop Domingo de Salazar, O.P.; December 21, 1581.
• [Letter to Felipe II.] Antonio Sedeño, S.J.; June 17, 1583.
• [Letter to Felipe II.] Bishop Domingo de Salazar, O.P.; June 18, 1583.
• [Relation of the Philipinas Islands.] [Unsigned and undated; 1586?]
• [Letter to Felipe II.] Juan Bautista Roman; July 2, 1588.
• [Letter to Felipe II.] Gomez Perez Dasmariñas; June 21, 1591.
• [Royal decree regarding hospitals for natives.] Felipe II; January 17, 1593.
• [Augustinian affairs.] Thomas Marquez, O.S.A., and the nuncio of Spain; 1599.
• [Letter to Felipe III from the ecclesiastical cabildo.] Juan de Bivero, and others; July 3, 1602.
• [Letter to Felipe III.] Bernardino Maldonado; June 21, 1605.

Sources: These documents are all obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla, except the second and eleventh, which are obtained from MSS. in the archives of the Vatican, Rome, and the seventh which is obtained from a pamphlet in the British Museum.

Translations: The second, fourth, and eleventh are by Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.; the remainder are by James Alexander Robertson.