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 1623–1624

• [Letter to Fajardo]. Felipe IV; October 9, 1623.
• [Royal permission for the Dominican college in Manila]. Felipe IV; November 27, 1623.
• [Expedition to the mines of the Igorrotes]. Alonso Martin Quirante; June 5, 1624.

Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from the “Cedulario Indico” in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; the second, from Algunos documentos relat. Univ. de Manila, p. 21, and Pastells’s edition of Colin’s Labor evangélica, iii, p. 565; the third, from a MS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

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