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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Documents of 1610

• [Petition of the Recollects]. Dionisio de la Anunciacion, and others; June 30.
• [Dominicans request suppression of the Audiencia]. Baltasar Fort, O.P., and others; June 30.
• [Relation of 1609–10]. Gregorío Lopez, S.J.; July 1.
• [Letter to Felipe III]. Juan de Silva; September 5.
• [Letter to Silva]. Felipe III; December 7.

Sources: All these documents save one are obtained from the original MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The third is found in the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), i, pp. 273–340.

Translations: The first three documents are translated by James A. Robertson; the fourth and fifth, by Robert W. Haight.