The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 / 1582-1583 / 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 1582

• [Letter to Felipe II]. Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñalosa; June 16.
• [1][Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas]. Miguel de Loarca; [June].
• [Letter to Felipe II]. Fray Domingo de Salazar; June 20.
• [Letter to viceroy]. Juan Baptista Roman; June 25.
• [Letter to Felipe II]. Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñalosa; July 1.
• [Papal decrees regarding the Dominicans]. Gregory XIII; September 15 and October 20.
• [Report on the offices saleable in the Philippines]. [Unsigned; 1582?].

Sources: These documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla—excepting the papal decrees, which are taken from Hernaez’s Colección de bulas.

Translations: The first and third documents are translated by José M. and Clara M. Asensio; the second, by Alfonso de Salvio, of Harvard University, and Emma Helen Blair; the fourth, by Arthur B. Myrick, of Harvard University; the fifth, by James A. Robertson; the sixth, by Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A., of Villanova College; the seventh, by Alfonso de Salvio.

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[1] This document is presented in both [Spanish] text and [English] translation.