The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 / 1629-30 / 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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Bibliographical Data

The following documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla:

1. Letter from Manila Dominicans.—”Simancas—Eclesiastico; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes de personas eclesiasticas de Filipinas; años de 1609 á 1644; est. 68, caj. 1, leg. 43.”

2. Letters from Juan Niño de Tavora, 1629.—”Simancas—Secular; cartas y espedientes del gobernador de Filipinas vistos en el Consejo; Audiencia de Filipinas; años de 1629 á 1639; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 8.”

3. Letters from Juan Niño de Tavora, 1630.—The same as No. 2.

The following document is obtained from Pastells’s edition of Colin’s Labor evangélica:

4. Decree regarding missions.—In vol. iii, p. 686.

The following document is taken from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library):

5. Relation of 1629–30.—In vol. i, pp. 617–625.

6. Medina’s Historia de la orden de S. Agustin is partly translated in full, partly synopsized, from a copy of the printed work in the possession of the Editors.