The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 / 1617-1620 / 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 XVIII

• [Preface] 9
• [Documents of 1617–1618]
  • [Letter to Felipe III]. Andrés de Alcaraz; Manila, August 10, 1617. 31
  • [Trade between Nueva España and the Far East]. [Unsigned and undated; ca. 1617]. 57
  • [Events in the Filipinas Islands, 1617–18]. [Unsigned; Manila], June, 1618. 65
  • [Description of the Philippinas Islands]. [Unsigned]; Manila, 1618. 93
  • [Dutch factories and posts in the Orient]. [Pedro de Heredia]; [1618?]. 107
  • [Memorial regarding Manila hospital]. [Unsigned]; Manila, 1618. 112
  • [Letter to Felipe III]. Alonso Fajardo de Tenza; Cavite, August 10, 1618. 116
  • [Letters to Fajardo]. Felipe III; Madrid, December 19, 1618. 150
  • [Filipinas menaced by Dutch]. Joan de Ribera, S.J.; Manila, December 20, 1618. 161
• [Documents of 1619–1620]
  • [Philippine ships and shipbuilding]. Sebastian de Pineda; [Mexico? 1619]. 169
  • [Royal decree regarding religious expelled from their orders]. Felipe III; Madrid, February 19, 1619. 189
  • [Proposal to destroy Macao]. Diego Aduarte, O.P.; [Madrid? 1619]. 194
  • [Relation of events in the Filipinas Islands, 1618–19]. [Unsigned]; Manila, July 12, 1619. 204
  • [Letter to Felipe III]. Pedro de Arce; Manila, July 30, 1619. 235
  • [Letter to Felipe III]. Alonso Fajardo de Tenza; Manila, August 10, 1619. 247
  • [Grant to seminary of Santa Potenciana]. Juan Oñez, and others; Manila, 1617–19. 282
  • [Reforms needed in Filipinas (to be concluded)]. Hernando de los Rios Coronel; [Madrid?], 1619–20. 289
• [Bibliographical Data]. 345