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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Contents of Volume XXIII

• [Preface] 9
• [Documents of 1629–30]
  • [Decree regarding mission appointments in the Indias]. Felipe IV; Madrid, April 6, 1629 23
  • [Letter from Manila Dominicans to Felipe IV]. Diego Duarte, and others; Manila, May 12, 1629 26
  • [Letters to Felipe IV]. Juan Niño de Tavora; Cavite, August 1, 1629 29
  • [Relation of 1629–30]. [Unsigned; Manila, July, 1630] 87.
  • [Letters to Felipe IV]. Juan Niño de Tavora; Manila, July 30, and Cavite, August 4, 1630 93
• [History of the Augustinian order in the Filipinas Islands (to be concluded)]. Juan de Medina, O.S.A.; 1630 [but printed at Manila, 1893] 119
• [Bibliographical Data] 299