The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 / 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 1649–1658

1. [Royal funeral rites at Manila]. [Unsigned;] 1649.
2. [Royal aid for Jesuits asked by Manila cabildo]. Matheo de Arceo, and others; June 20, 1652.
3. [Condition of the Philippines in 1652]. Magino Sola, S.J.; September 15, 1652.
4. [Jesuit missions in 1655]. Miguel Solana, S.J.; June 30, 1655.
5. [Letter from the archbishop of Manila]. Miguel de Poblete; July 30, 1656.
6. [Two Jesuit memorials]. Francisco Vello, S.J.; [1658].
7. [Jesuit protest against the Dominican university]. Miguel Solana, S.J.; [1658?].
8. [Description of the Philipinas Islands]. [Ygnacio de Paz; ca. 1658]

Sources: The first of these documents is taken from Retana’s Archivo, ii, pp. 105–158; the second and sixth, from Pastells’s edition of Colin’s Labor evangélica, iii, pp. 786, 787, and 804, 805; the third and fourth, from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), ii, pp. 385–389. The following are obtained from original MSS. in archives as follows: the fifth, in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the seventh, in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the eighth, in the Archivo general, Simancas.

Translations: The fifth document is translated by Robert W. Haight; the seventh, by Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.; the remainder, by James A. Robertson.