The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649 / 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 1640–1644

• [The Dominican missions, 1635–39]. Baltasar de Santa Cruz, O.P. [From his Historia del Santo Rosario.]
• [The Recollect missions, 1625–40]. [From the works of Juan de la Concepción and Luis de Jesús.]
• [News from Filipinas, 1640–42]. [Unsigned]; [1641], and July 25, 1642.
• [Decree regarding the Indians]. Felipe IV; October 24, 1642.
• [Formosa lost to Spain]. Juan de los Angeles, O.P.; March, 1643.
• [Letter to Corcuera]. Felipe IV; August 4, 1643.

Sources: The first document is taken from Santa Cruz’s Historia del Santo Rosario (Zaragoça, 1693), pp. 1–23 (from a copy owned by Edward E. Ayer). The second, from Luis de Jesús’s Historia de los religiosos descalzos de San Augustin (Madrid, 1681), pp. 69–71, 163–173, 184, 282–287, 294–298 (from a copy owned by Edward E. Ayer); and Juan de la Concepción’s Historia de Philipinas, v, pp. 163–179, 360–391 (from a copy in the possession of the Editors). The third, from a MS. in the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid. The fourth, from a MS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The fifth, from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), ii, pp. 251–288; Ferrando’s Historia de los PP. Dominicos, ii, pp. 440–447; and Concepción’s Historia, vi, pp. 89–113. The sixth, from the “Cedulario Indico,” in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid.

Translations: The first three documents are translated by James A. Robertson; the fourth, by Victoria Peacock; the remainder, by Emma Helen Blair.