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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Documents Of 1635

• [Laws regarding navigation and commerce, 1611–35]. Felipe III and Felipe IV; 1611–35.
• [Royal decrees, 1633–35]. Felipe IV; 1633–35.
• [Memorial to the king, in the year 1635]. Juan Grao y Monfalcon; September 6.
• [Manila treasury accounts, 1630–35]. Geronimo de ——, and Francisco Antonio Manzelo; August 13, 1638.
• [Letter of consolation to the Jesuits of Pintados]. Juan de Bueras, S.J.; February 1.
• [Letter to Felipe IV]. Andres del Sacramento, O.S.F.; June 2.
• [Letter from the Franciscan commissary-general of the Indias]. Francisco de Ocaña, O.S.F.; June 28.
• [Opinion of Council and royal decree concerning request of Manila Jesuits for alms]. Felipe IV, and others; July 10.
• [Letter to Felipe IV]. Pedro de Arce; October 17.

Sources: The first of these documents is taken from the Recopilación de leyes de Indias, lib. ix, tit. xxxxv; the second, from the “Cedulario Indico” in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; the third, from a MS. in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid; the fourth, sixth, and seventh, from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the fifth, from a MS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; and the last two, from Pastells’s edition of Colin’s Labor evangélica.

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