The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 37, 1669-1676 / 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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MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS, 1669–1676

• [Events in Filipinas]. [Unsigned; Francisco de Figueroa?]; January 15, 1669.
• [The Dominicans in the Philippines, 1641–69]. Baltasar de Santa Cruz, O.P.; 1676. [From his Historia.]
• [The Augustinians in the Philippines, 1641–70]. Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A.; 1718. [From his Conquistas.]
• [Manila and the Philippines about 1650 (to be concluded)]. Domingo Fernandez Navarrete, O.P.; 1676. [From his Tratados historicos.]

Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), ii, pp. 643–692. The second, from Santa Cruz’s Historia del Sant. Rosario (Zaragoça, 1693), pp. 44 et seq.; from a copy in the possession of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago. The third, from Diaz’s Conquistas (Manila, 1890), pp. 444 et seq.; from a copy in the possession of James A. Robertson. The fourth, from Navarrete’s Tratados historicos (Madrid, 1676), pp. 299–332; from a copy in the Library of Congress; this document will be concluded in VOL. XXXVIII.

Translations: The first document is translated by Emma Helen Blair; the remainder, by James A. Robertson.