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 1611

• [Foundation of the college of Santo Tomás of Manila]. Bernardo de Santa Catalina, O.P., and others; April 28.
• [Hospital at Nueva Cáceres]. Pedro Arce, O.S.A.; July 20.
• [Letters to Juan de Silva]. Felipe III; November–December.
• [Letters to the Dominican provincial]. Felipe III; December 31.

Sources: All these documents save one are obtained from original MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The first one is found in a pamphlet entitled Algunos documentos relativos á la Universidad de Manila (Madrid, 1892), pp. 5–20.

Translations: The first document is translated by James A. Robertson; the remainder, by Robert W. Haight.