The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 / 1606-1609 / 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 1607

• [Petition for a grant to the Jesuit seminary in Leyte.] January 18.
• [Artillery at Manila in 1607.] Alonso de Biebengud; July 6.
• [Letter from the Audiencia to Felipe III, on the Confraternity of La Misericordia.] Pedro Hurtado de Esquivel; July 11.
• [Trade of the Philippines with Mexico.] December 18.
• [Passage of missionaries via the Philippines to Japan.] Conde de Lemos, and others; 1606–07.

Sources: The first three of these documents are obtained from the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the last two, from the Archivo general at Simancas.

Translations: The first document, and the third paper in the fifth, are translated by James A. Robertson; the second and third, by Henry B. Lathrop, of the University of Wisconsin; the second paper of the fifth, by Norman F. Hall, of Harvard University; the remainder, by Robert W. Haight.