The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55, 1638–40 / 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 1638

• [Events in the Filipinas, 1637–38.] [Unsigned; probably written by Juan Lopez, S.J., in July, 1638.]
• [Letter to Felipe IV.] Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; August 21.
• [Letter to Felipe IV, from the treasurer at Manila.] Baltasar Ruiz de Escalona; August 31.
• [Relation of the Filipinas Islands.] Hieronimo de Bañuelos y Carrillo; 1638.
• [Glorious victories against the Moros of Mindanao.] Diego de Bobadilla, S.J., and others; 1638.
• [Royal orders and decrees, 1638.] Felipe IV; March 15, and September-December.
• [Fortunate successes in Filipinas and Terrenate, 1636–37.] [Unsigned; published in 1639.]
• [Value of Corcuera’s seizures in Jolo.] [Unsigned and undated; probably 1638.]

Sources: The first and seventh of these documents are obtained from MSS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the second and third, and two of the decrees in the sixth, from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the rest of the sixth, from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; the fourth, from Thevenot’s Voyages curieux, t. i, part ii—from a copy belonging to the library of Harvard University; the fifth, from a book in the Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid; the eighth, from Pastells’ edition of Colin’s Labor evangélica, iii, pp. 528–533.

Translations: These are made by James A. Robertson—except the second and part of the sixth, by Emma Helen Blair; and the fifth, by Arthur B. Myrick.