The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 / 1635-36 / 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 XXV

• [Preface] 9
• [Documents of 1635]
  • [Laws regarding navigation and commerce, 1611–35]. Felipe III and Felipe IV; 1611–35 23
  • [Royal decrees, 1633–35]. Felipe IV; Madrid, 1633–35 38
  • [Memorial to the king, in the year 1635]. Juan Grao y Monfalcon; Madrid, September 6 48
  • [Manila treasury accounts, 1630–35]. Gerónimo de ——, and Francisco Antonio Manzelo; August 18, 1638 74
  • [Letter of consolation to the Jesuits of Pintados]. Juan de Bueras, S.J.; Manila, February 1 87
  • [Letter to Felipe IV]. Andres del Sacramento, O.S.F.; Nueva Caceres, June 2 95
  • [Letter from the Franciscan commissary-general of the Indias]. Francisco de Ocaña, O.S.F.; Madrid, June 28 98
  • [Opinion of Council and royal decree concerning request of Manila Jesuits for alms]. Felipe IV, and others; Madrid, July 10 100
  • [Letter to Felipe IV]. Pedro de Arce; Manila, October 17 104
• [Documents of 1636]
  • [Discussion regarding Portuguese trade at Manila]. Joseph de Navada Alvarado, and others; 1632–36 111
  • [Decree extending the tenure of encomiendas]. Felipe IV; Madrid, February 1 145
  • [Military services of Filipinos]. Juan Grau y Monfalcon; [Madrid], June 13 148
  • [Conflicts between civil and ecclesiastical authorities, 1635–36]. Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A.; from his Conquistas de las Islas Filipinas (published at Valladolid, 1890, but written early in eighteenth century) 151
  • [Letter from a citizen of Manila to an absent friend]. [Unsigned; Fabian de Santillan y Gavilanes?]; Manila, June 15 201
  • [Request for Jesuit missionaries]. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; Cavile, June 19 297
  • [Letter from the bishop of Nueva Caceres to Felipe IV]. Francisco de Zamudio, O.S.A.; Manila, June 20 301
  • [List of prominent ecclesiastics in Manila and the islands]. Hernando de Guerrero, archbishop of Manila; 1636 305
• [Bibliographical Data] 321