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 1590

• [Letter from Portugal to Felipe II. [Unsigned and undated.]
• [Decree ordering a grant to Salazar. Felipe II; April 12.]
• [Letter from members of the suppressed Audiencia to Felipe II. Santiago de Vera, and others; June 20.]
• [The Chinese and the Parián at Manila. Domingo de Salazar; June 24.]
• [Two letters to Felipe II. Domingo de Salazar; June 24.]
• [Decree regarding commerce in the Philippines. Felipe II; July 23.]

Sources: These documents are obtained from the original MSS. in the Archivo general dé Indias, Sevilla—except the fourth, which is taken from Retana's Archivo del bibliófilo filipino, iii, pp. 47–80.

Translations: The first document is translated by Arthur B. Myrick, of Harvard University; the second, third, and sixth, by James A. Robertson; the fourth, by Alfonso de Salvio, of Harvard University; the fifth, by Isaac J. Cox, of the University of Pennsylvania, and by José M. and Clara M. Asensio. Page 187