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 1628–1629

• [Relation of 1627–28]. [Unsigned]; July, 1628.
• [Report of appointments made by the governor]. Juan Niño de Tavora; August 2, 1628.
• [Letters to Felipe IV]. Juan Niño de Tavora; August 4, 1628.
• [Economic reasons for suppressing the silk trade of China in Spain and its colonies]. Juan Velazquez Madr^co; October 7, 1628.
• [Decrees regarding the Chinese]. Felipe IV; June, 1628–March, 1629.
• [Relations of 1628–29]. Hernando Estrado, and others; 1628–29.

Sources: Most of these documents are from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla, The first one is from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library); the fifth, from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; and the last, from MSS. in the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid.

Translations: The second of these documents is translated by Robert W. Haight; the second part of the last, by Arthur B. Myrick; all the rest, by James A. Robertson.