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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Documents of 1629–1630

• [Decree regarding mission appointments in the Indias]. Felipe IV; April 6, 1629.
• [Letter from Manila Dominicans to Felipe IV]. Diego Duarte, and others; May 12, 1629.
• [Letters to Felipe IV]. Juan Niño de Tavora; August 1, 1629.
• [Relation of 1629–30]. [Unsigned; July, 1630.]
• [Letters to Felipe IV]. Juan Niño de Tavora; July 30 and August 4, 1630.

Sources: Of these documents, the first is obtained from Pastells’s edition of Colin’s Labor evangélica, iii, p. 686; the fourth, from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), i, pp. 617–625; and the remainder from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

Translations: All these documents are translated by James A. Robertson.