The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55 / 1597-1599 / 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 1598

• [Letter to Antonio de Morga]. Juan de Ronquillo; January 4.
• [Report of conditions in the Philippines]. Antonio de Morga; June 8.
• [Recommendations as to reforms needed in the islands]. [Unsigned and undated; 1598?]
• [Reception of the royal seal at Manila]. Francisco Tello, and others; June 8.
• [Letters from the archbishop of Manila to Felipe II]. Ygnacio de Santibañez; June 24 and 26.
• [Letters from the bishop of Nueva Segovia to Felipe II]. Miguel de Benavides; June 30 and July 5.
• [Letters to Felipe II]. Francisco Tello; June 17–July 9.
• [Report of the Audiencia on the conduct of Tello]. Antonio de Morga, and others; July 15.

Source: All these documents are obtained from original MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

Translations: The first, fourth, fifth, and most of the sixth, are translated by Robert W. Haight; the second, by Rachel King; the third, and part of the sixth and seventh, by James A. Robertson; most of the seventh, by José M. and Clara M. Asensio; the eighth, by Helen E. Thomas. Page 44