The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 / 1609-1616 / 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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Contents of Volume XVII

• [Preface] 9
• [Documents of 1609]
  • [Laws regarding navigation and commerce]. Felipe II and Felipe III; 1583–1609 27
  • [Jesuit missions, 1608–09]. (From Annuæ litteræ; Dilingæ, 1610.) 53
  • [Decree regulating services of Filipinos]. Felipe III; Aranjuez, May 26 79
• [Documents of 1610]
  • [Petition of the Recollects]. Dionisio de la Anunciacion, and others; Manila, June 30 85
  • [Dominicans request suppression of the Audiencia]. Baltasar Fort, O.P., and others; Manila, June 30 89
  • [Relation of 1609–1610]. Gregorio Lopez, S.J.,; Manila, July 1 100
  • [Letter to Felipe III]. Juan de Silva; Cavite, September 5 144
  • [Letter to Silva]. Felipe III; Madrid, December 7 151
• [Documents of 1611]
  • [Foundation of the college of Santo Tomás of Manila]. Bernardo de Santa Catalina, O.P., and others; Manila, April 28 155
  • [Hospital at Nueva Cáceres]. Pedro Arce, O.S.A.; Manila, July 20 172
  • [Letters to Juan de Silva]. Felipe III; Guadarrama and Madrid, November–December 174
  • [Letters to the Dominican provincial]. Felipe III; Madrid, December 31 183
• [Documents of 1612–1613]
  • [Status of missions in the Philippines]. Gregorio Lopez, S.J., and others; [Manila, ca. 1612] 189
  • [Trade of the Philippines]. Juan, marques de Montesclaros; Los Reyes, April 12, 1612 213
  • [Letter from the bishop of Nueva Segovia] [Domingo de Soria, O.P.]; Manila, August 15, 1613 233
  • [Letter to Silva]. Felipe III; Pardo, December 2, 1613 237
• [Documents of 1616]
  • [Recommendations regarding the archbishopric of Manila]. [Council of the Indias?]; Madrid, 1613–16 245
  • [Letter to Felipe III]. Valerio de Ledesma, S.J.; Manila, August 20 249
  • [Portuguese and Spanish expedition against the Dutch, 1615]. Juan de Rivera and Valerio de Ledesma, S.J.; [Manila, 1616?] 251
• [Bibliographical Data] 281
• [Appendix: Chronological list of the governors of the Philippines, 1565–1899, and the administration of the islands at different periods] 283