The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 / 1630-34 / 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 1630–1633

• [Royal letters and decree]. Felipe IV; December 4–31, 1630.
• [Letter to Felipe IV from the bishop of Cebú]. Pedro de Arce; July 31, 1631.
• [Royal orders, 1632–33]. Felipe IV; January–March, 1632, and March, 1633.
• [Letters to Felipe IV]. Juan Niño de Tavora; July 8, 1632.
• [Events in Filipinas, 1630–32]. [Unsigned]; July 2, 1632.
• [Letter from the ecclesiastical cabildo to Felipe IV]. Miguel Garcetas, and others; [undated, but 1632].

Sources: The first and third documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid; the second, fourth, and sixth, from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the fifth, from a MS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid.

Translations: The fifth document, and the first letter each in the first and the third, are translated by Robert W. Haight; the remainder, by James A. Robertson.