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 1644–1649

• [Concessions to the Jesuits]. Balthasar de Lagunilla, S. J., and others; 1640–44.
• [Events in the Philippines, 1643–44]. [Unsigned and undated.]
• [Fiscal’s report on Sangley licenses]. Sebastian Cavallero [de Medina]; 1644.
• [Decree ordering reënforcements for the islands]. Felipe IV; September 18, 1645.
• [Erection of Santo Tomás into a university]. Felipe IV and Innocent X; 1644–45.
• [Trade with English not desired]. Council of State; January 30, 1647.
• [Affairs in Filipinas, 1644–47]. Fray Joseph Fayol; 1647.
• [Decree regarding missionaries]. Felipe IV; September 17, 1647.
• [Early Franciscan missions]. [Unsigned; written in 1649.]

Sources: The first and eighth documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the second and seventh, from MSS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the fourth (its original from the same source), from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), ii, pp. 353–355; the third, from a rare and perhaps unique pamphlet (Manila, 1644), in the possession of Edward E. Ayer; the fifth, from Documentos relativos á la Universidad de Manila, pp. 23–30 (but the letter to Siruela, from a MS. in the Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid); the sixth, from a MS. in the Archivo general of Simancas; the ninth, from Retana’s Archivo, i, pp. [15–71].

Translations: The first, second, fourth and eighth are made by Emma Helen Blair; the third, fifth, sixth, and ninth, by James A. Robertson; the seventh, by Mary F. Foster and Emma Helen Blair.