The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 / 1625-29 / 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 1626

• [Letter from the archbishop to Felipe IV]. Miguel Garcia Serrano; July 25.
• [Letter to Felipe IV]. Fernando de Silva; July 30.
• [Letter from the sisters of St. Clare to Felipe IV]. Jeronima de la Asunsion, and others; July 31.
• [Petition for aid to the seminary of San Juan Letran]. Juan Geronimo de Guerrero; August 1.
• [Royal decrees]. Felipe IV; June–October.
• [Military affairs of the islands]. [Unsigned]; 1626.

Sources: Most of these documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The last two of the “Royal decrees” are from MSS. in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; and the sixth document is from a rare pamphlet in the British Museum, London.

Translations: These are all made by James A. Robertson, except the second, by Robert W. Haight.