The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 / 1636-37 / 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 1637

1. [Defeat of Moro pirates]. [Unsigned and undated; but probably written by Pedro Gutierrez, S.J., in 1637.]
2. [Auditorship of accounts in Manila, 1595–1637]. [Unsigned and undated; probably written in 1637.]
3. [Conquest of Mindanao]. Marcelo Francisco Mastrilli, S.J.; June 2.
4. [Events in Filipinas, 1636–37]. Juan Lopez, S.J.; July 23.
5. [Corcuera’s triumphant entry into Manila]. Juan Lopez, May–July.
6. [Royal aid requested by the Jesuits at Manila]. Francisco Colin, S.J., and others; July–August.
7. [Letters to Felipe IV]. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; August 20.

Sources: The first, third, and fourth of these documents are obtained from MSS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the second and seventh, from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the fifth, from Barrantes’s Guerras piraticas, pp. 303–310; the sixth, from Pastells’s edition of Colin’s Labor evangélica, iii, pp. 757–758.

Translations: The first of these documents is translated by Arthur B. Myrick and Emma Helen Blair; the second, fourth, and sixth, by James A. Robertson; the third, by Helen E. Thomas; the fifth, by Alfonso de Salvio; the seventh, by Emma Helen Blair.