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 1575–76

• [Part of a letter to the viceroy]. Guido de Lavezaris; [1575?]
• [Letter to Felipe II]. Juan Pacheco Maldonado; [1575?]
• [Encomiendas forbidden to royal officials]. Francisco de Sande, and others; May 26, 1576
• [Letter to Felipe II]. Francisco de Sande; June 2, 1576

Sources: These documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias at Sevilla.

Translations: The first document is translated by Alfonso de Salvio; the second and third, by Arthur B. Myrick; the fourth, by José M. Asensio. Page 264