The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 / 1620-1621 / 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 1620

• [Reforms needed in the Filipinas] (concluded). Hernando de los Rios Coronel; [1619–20].
• [Letter to Alonso de Escovar]. Francisco de Otaço, S.J.; January 14.
• [Decree ordering reforms in the friars’ treatment of the Indians]. Felipe III; May 29.
• [Relation of events in the Philipinas Islands, 1619–20]. [Unsigned]; June 14.
• [Compulsory service by the Indians]. Pedro de Sant Pablo, O.S.F.; August 7.
• [Letter from the Audiencia to Felipe III]. Hieronimo Legaspi de Cheverria, and others; August 8.
• [Letter to Felipe III]. Alonso Fajardo de Tenza; August 15.
• [Letter to Alonso Fajardo de Tenza]. Felipe III; December 13.

Sources: All of these documents, except the second, fourth, and eighth, are obtained from the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The second and fourth are from the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid; and the eighth from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid.

Translations: The second and fourth are translated by Herbert E. Bolton, Ethel Z. Rather, and Mattie A. Austen, of the University of Texas; the eighth by Robert W. Haight; and the remainder by James A. Robertson.