The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 / 1593-1597 / 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 1595

• [Letter to Felipe II]. Pedro Gonzalez de Carbajal; [1595?]
• [Formation of new dioceses]. Felipe II; June 17.
• [Letter to Felipe II]. Antonio de Morga; June 25.
• [Expedition to Camboja]. Gregorio da Cruz, and others; August 1—3.
• [Instructions to Figueroa]. L. P. Dasmariñas; November 13—16.
• [The Audiencia of Manila reëstablished]. Felipe II; November 26.
• [Letter to Felipe II]. L.P. Dasmariñas; December 6.

Sources: The second document is taken from Doc. inéd. Amér. y Oceania, xxxiv, pp. 86—94; all the others are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

Translations: The first document is translated by Arthur B. Myrick, of Harvard University; the second, by Frederic W. Morrison, of Harvard University; the third and part of the seventh, by José M. and Clara H. Asensio; the fourth and fifth, by Robert W. Haight; the sixth and part of the seventh, by James A. Robertson. Page 137