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 1622

• [Letter to the king]. Alvaro Messa y Lugo; 1621 and July 30, 1622.
• [Letters from the archbishop of Manila to the King]. Miguel García Serrano, O.S.A.; 1621–22.
• [Royal decrees regarding the religious]. Felipe IV; December 31.

Source: These documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

Translations: All these are made by James A. Robertson.