The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 / 1588-1591 / 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

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Documents of 1589

• [Excerpt from a letter from the viceroy of India. [Manuel de Sousa Coutinho]; April 3]. [Letter to Felipe II. Santiago de Vera; July 13]. [Conspiracy against the Spaniards. Santiago de Vera, and others; May-July].
• [Letter to Felipe II. [Gaspar] de Ayala; July 15]. [Decree regarding commerce. Felipe II; August 9]. [Instructions to Dasmariñas. Felipe II; August 9]. [Customs of the Tagalogs (two relations). Juan de Plasencia, O.S.F.: October 21].

Sources: All but the fifth and the last of these documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias. The decree of August 9 is taken from the “Cedulario Indico” in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; and Plasencia's accounts of the Tagalogs, from Santa Inés's Crónica, ii, pp. 592–603.

Translations: The first of these documents is translated by Arthur B. Myrick, of Harvard University; the second and fourth are by José M. and Clara M. Asensio; the third and fifth, by Alfonso de Salvio, of Harvard University; the sixth, by James A. Robertson; the seventh, by Frederic W. Morrison, of Harvard University. Page 70