The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 / 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 1624

• [Ecclesiastical affairs of the Philippines]. Miguel Garcia Serrano, and others; 1574–1624.
• [Conflict between civil and religious authorities in Manila]. [Unsigned and undated; 1624?]
• [Seminary for Japanese missionaries]. Alvaro de Messa y Lugo, and others; July 23-August 5.
• [Extract from letter to Felipe IV]. Miguel Garcia Serrano; August 15.
• [Royal orders regarding the religious]. Felipe IV; August-December.

Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from Pastells’s edition of Celin’s Labor evangélica, iii, pp. 674–697; the second, from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), i, pp. 515–523; the others, from the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla—save the second of the “Royal orders,” from the “Cedulario Indico” of the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid.

Translations: The third document is translated by Robert W. Haight; the second part of the fifth, by Arthur B. Myrick, of Harvard University; the remainder, by James A. Robertson.