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 1636

• [Discussion regarding Portuguese trade at Manila]. Joseph de Navada Alvarado, and others; 1632–36,
• [Decree extending the tenure of encomiendas]. Felipe IV; February 1.
• [Military services of Filipinos]. Juan Grau y Monfalcon; June 13.
• [Conflicts between civil and ecclesiastical authorities, 1635–36]. Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A.
• [Letter from a citizen of Manila to an absent friend]. [Unsigned; Fabian de Santillan y Gavilanes?]; June 15.
• [Request for Jesuit missionaries]. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; June 19.
• [Letter from the bishop of Nueva Caceres to Felipe IV]. Francisco de Zamudio, O.S.A.; June 20.
• [List of prominent ecclesiastics in Manila and the islands]. Hernando de Guerrero, archbishop of Manila; 1636.

Sources: All but three of these documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The second is from the “Cedulario Indico” of the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; the fourth, from Diaz’s Conquistas de las Islas Filipinas; the fifth, from a MS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid.

Translations: All but one of these documents are translated by James A. Robertson; the last is by Robert W. Haight.