The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 / 1569-1576 / 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 Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

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Documents of 1573

• [Expenses of expedition to Western Islands, 1569–72]. Melchior de Legazpi; March 2.
• [Affairs in the Philippines, after the death of Legazpi]. Guido de Lavezaris; June 29.
• [Relation of the Western Islands, called Filipinas]. Diego de Artieda.
• [Letter from the viceroy of New Spain to Felipe II]. Martin Enriquez; December 5.

Sources: The first two documents are from MSS. in the Archivo de Indias at Sevilla; the third, from a MS. in the Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid, collated with another copy at Sevilla; the fourth is taken from Cartas de Indias (Madrid, 1877).

Translations: The first document is translated by James A. Robertson; the second, by Arthur B. Myrick; the third, by Alfonso de Salvio; the fourth, by Francis W. Snow. Page 155