The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640 / 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 Diego Aduarte; Antonio Alvarez de Abreu

Table of Contents

• [Contents of Volume XXX] [5]
• [Illustrations] [7]
• [Preface] [9]
• [Commerce between the Philippines and Nueva España] [19]
  • [Commerce between the Philippines and Nueva España] [23]
    • [Of what has been ordained by royal decrees, now compiled, in regard to the commerce of Philipinas.]
    • [Of the debates on this commerce which occurred in the royal Council of the Indias up to the year 1640, and the commissions which on that account were entrusted to Señor Don Juan de Palafox, who, being an official of the [India] House, went as bishop of Puebla de los Angeles.] [24]
    • [Justification of the maintenance of the Philipinas Islands and their commerce] [25]
      • [Point first] [27]
      • [Point second] [57]
      • [Point third] [64]
      • [Point fourth] [67]
    • [Informatory decree regarding the question to what extent and on what plan shall the commerce of the islands with Nueva España hereafter proceed.] [81]
    • [Informatory decree upon the augmentation of the amount permitted to the Philipinas Islands, in both silver and merchandise; and that the products of the islands shall not be included in the permission for 250,000 pesos.] [93]
    • [Informatory decree, in regard to opening the commerce between the kingdoms of Perù and Nueva España.] [97]
    • [Decree in which his Majesty commands that a hearing be given in a court of justice to the citizens of the city of Manila, regarding their claim that they be not included in the condemnations and compositions of the 900,000 pesos; and [it is declared] that it is his Majesty’s intention that they should not pay what they do not owe.] [102]
• [HISTORIA DE LA PROVINCIA DEL SANCTO ROSARIO DE LA ORDEN DE PREDICADORES] [111]
  • [History of the Dominican Province of the Holy Rosary] [115]
  • [Book I] [115]
    • [How the establishment of the Dominican order in the Philipinas Islands was undertaken] [115]
    • [Negotiations of Fray Juan Chrisostomo at Roma] [118]
    • [The experience of Fray Juan Chrisostomo in España until the establishment of the new province was completed.] [118]
    • [The experience of these first fathers up to the time of embarcation] [122]
    • [The voyage of the fathers] [123]
    • [New difficulties met by the expedition, and the result] [124]
    • [Of the ordinances made by the vicar-general for the foundation of the new province] [126]
    • [The voyage of the fathers from Mexico to the Philippines] [128]
    • [The voyage and experience of the brethren who went to Macau] [129]
    • [Of the entry of the religious into the city of Manila, and of their occupations there until they went on their various missions.] [130]
    • [Some marvels wrought by the Lord in the convent of Manila, and the rebuilding of the same] [142]
    • [A revered image of our Lady of the Rosary possessed by this convent, and the marvels which the Lord has wrought and still works by it.] [144]
    • [Other miracles wrought by this holy image] [145]
    • [Other marvels wrought by the same image] [145]
    • [Further marvels wrought by the same holy image] [145]
    • [The manner in which the religious lived when they entered their ministry to the Indians] [146]
    • [Of the great advantage derived by this province from the observance of the aforesaid rules] [154]
    • [The same subject is continued with testimony taken from regions and persons at a greater distance] [159]
    • [The foundation of the vicariate of Bataan, and the early history thereof] [161]
    • [The same continued, and some miracles that afterwards followed] [176]
    • [The entry of the religious into Pangasinan] [180]
    • [Of the persecution of the religious by the Indians, at the beginning; and of their later heartfelt conversion.] [190]
    • [Some miracles wrought by God in Pangasinan at the beginning of the preaching in this province] [196]
    • [The coming to this province of father Fray Juan Cobo and other religious] [200]
    • [The election of the first provincial, and the first provincial chapter] [207]
    • [The foundation of another church in Pangasinan, and the first visitation of the father provincial] [211]
    • [The province takes charge of the missions of the Chinese, and the results which follow] [215]
    • [The coming of some religious, and the second visitation of father Fray Juan de Castro] [234]
    • [The journey of the father provincial, Fray Juan de Castro, and of father Fray Miguel de Venavides to the kingdom of China.] [246]
    • [Events in the province during the absence of the provincial in China] [249]
    • [The journey of the bishop of these islands to España in company with father Fray Miguel de Venavides, and the death of two religious.] [253]
    • [The election of father Fray Alonso Ximenez as provincial] [259]
    • [Father Fray Juan Cobo, his virtues and death] [267]
    • [The death of father Fray Francisco de la Mina, and the council which was held in place of the intermediate provincial chapter.] [270]
    • [The second expedition of religious from Castilla to the Philippinas, and the deaths of some on the voyage.] [281]
    • [The condition in which the religious found the Indians in the province] [285]
    • [The beginning of the conversion of these Indians of Nueva Segovia] [298]
• [Bibliographical Data] [323]