Documents of 1591
- [The collection of tributes in the Filipinas] (concluded). Domingo de Salazar, and others; January–March.
- [Liberty of the Indians in the Philippinas]. Gregory XIV; April 18.
- [Articles of contract for the conquest of Mindanao]. G. P. Dasmariñas and Estevan Rodriguez de Figueroa; May 12.
- [Ordinance forbidding the Indians to wear Chinese stuffs]. G. P. Dasmariñas and others; April 9–May 20.
- [Account of the encomiendas in the Philippinas Islands]. [G. P. Dasmariñas]; May 31.
- [Letter to Felipe II]. G. P. Dasmariñas; June 20.
- [The fortification of Manila]. G. P. Dasmariñas; June 20.
- [Investigations at Manila concerning trade with Macan]. Melchor de Baeça, and others; May 23–November 19.
Sources: All but two of these documents are obtained from original MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The papal decree is found in Hernaez's Colección de bulas, i, p. 108; the account of encomiendas is taken from Retana's Archivo del bibliófilo filipino, iv, pp. 41–111.
Translations: Such part of the first document as appears in this volume is translated by Norman F. Hall; the second is by Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A., of Villanova College; the third and fifth, by James A. Robertson; the fourth, by Herman G. A. Brauer, of the University of Wisconsin; the sixth, by José M. and Clara M. Asensio; the seventh, by Henry B. Lathrop, of the University of Wisconsin; the eighth, by Alfonso de Salvio, of Harvard University. Page 18