The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 / 1621-1624 / 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 1621

• [News from the province of Filipinas]. Alonso Roman; [July?].
• [Death of Doña Catalina Zambrano]. [Unsigned]; July.
• [Letter to the king]. Alonso Fajardo de Tença; July 21.
• [Letter from the archbishop of Manila to the king]. Miguel Garcia Serrano, O.S.A., July 30.
• [Letter to the king]. Geronimo de Silva; August 1.
• [Affairs in the Franciscan province]. Pedro de Sant Pablo, O.S.F., and others; 1620–21.
• [Letter to the king]. Alonso Fajardo de Tença; December 10.

Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from a MS. in the Real Academia de Historia, Madrid; the second, from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer Library), i, pp. 509–514; the remainder, from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

Translations: The first of these documents is translated by Arthur B. Myrick, of Harvard University; the second, fourth, fifth, and sixth, by James A. Robertson—except the Latin bull in the fourth, translated by Rev. T.C. Middleton, O.S.A.; the third and seventh, by Robert W. Haight.