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 1633–1634

• [Papal bull concerning missions]. Urban VIII; June 28, 1633.
• [News from the Far East, 1632]. Fray Juan García, O.P.; 1633.
• [Letters to Felipe IV]. Juan Cerezo de Salamanca; August 14, 1633.
• [Report of archbishop on the bakery of Manila]. Hernando de Guerrero; August 3, 1634.
• [News from Felipinas, Japon, and other parts]. [Unsigned]; August 20, 1634.
• [Letters to Felipe IV]. Juan Cerezo de Salamanca; August 10, 1634.

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

Translations: The first document is translated by Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.; the third and sixth, by James A. Robertson; the remainder, by Robert W. Haight.