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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Documents of 1619–1620

• [Philippine ships and shipbuilding]. Sebastian de Pineda; [1619].
• [Royal decree regarding religious expelled from their orders]. Felipe III; February 19, 1619.
• [Proposal to destroy Macao]. Diego Aduarte, O.P.; [1619].
• [Relation of events in the Filipinas Islands, 1618–19]. [Unsigned]; July 12, 1619.
• [Letter to Felipe III]. Pedro de Arce; July 30, 1619.
• [Letter to Felipe III]. Alonso Fajardo de Tenza; August 10, 1619.
• [Grant to seminary of Santa Potenciana]. Juan Oñez, and others; 1617–19.
• [Reforms needed in Filipinas (to be concluded)]. Hernando de los Rios Coronel; 1619–1620.

Sources: All these documents save one are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the fourth is taken from a MS. in the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid.

Translations: All these documents save one are translated by James A. Robertson; the fourth, by Herbert E. Bolton, Ethel Z. Rather, and Mattie A. Austin, of the University of Texas.