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 1616

• [Recommendations regarding the archbishopric of Manila]. [Council of the Indias?]; 1613–16.
• [Letter to Felipe III]. Valerio de Ledesma, S.J.; August 20.
• [Portuguese and Spanish expedition against the Dutch, 1615]. Juan de Rivera and Valerio de Ledesma, S.J.; [1616?].

Sources: The first document is obtained from the original MS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The second, and the first part of the third, are found in the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), i, pp. 403–429; the remainder of the third, in Colin’s Labor evangélica (Madrid, 1663,) pp. 802–810.

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