The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736 / 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 1700–1730

• [Jesuit missions in the seventeenth century]. Pedro Murillo Velarde; 1749.
• [Condition of the islands, 1701]. José Vila, O.P., and others; October 7, 1701.
• [Events of 1701–15]. [Summarized from Concepción’s Historia de Philipinas.]
• [The government and death of Bustamante]. Diego de Otazo, S.J., and others; 1719–20.
• [Letter by a Spanish officer]. Manuel de Santistevan; January 28, 1730.

Sources: The first of these documents is compiled from Murillo Velarde’s Historia de Philipinas (Manila, 1749), using such parts as directly relate to the missionary labors of the Jesuit order in the islands; from a copy of the original in possession of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago. The second is found in the Ventura del Arco MSS., (Ayer library), v, pp. 201–230; and, in the fourth, Otazo’s and Cuesta’s letters are found in iv, pp. 249–295. The third is summarized from Concepción’s Historia de Philipinas, viii, pp. 299–391; part of the fourth is from ix, pp. 183–424; and the rest is obtained as stated above. The fifth is translated from a MS. probably the original, in possession of Edward E. Ayer.

Translations: These are all made by Emma Helen Blair.