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 1583

• [Complaints against Peñalosa]. Gabriel de Ribera; [1583?]
• [Affairs in the Philipinas Islands]. Fray Domingo de Salazar; [1583].
• [Instructions to commissary of the Inquisition]. Pedro de los Rios, and others; March 1.
• [Foundation of the Audiencia of Manila]. Felipe II; May 5.

Sources: These documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla—excepting the third, which is from the Archivo general at Simancas.

Translations: The first and third documents are translated by Alfonso de Salvio, of Harvard University; the second, by Herbert E. Bolton, of the University of Texas; the fourth, by Henry B. Lathrop, of the University of Wisconsin.