The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 47, 1728-1759 / 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 1728–1759

• [The Santa Misericordia of Manila]. Juan Bautista de Uriarte; 1728.
• [Survey of the Filipinas Islands]. Fernando Valdés Tamón; 1739. (To this is added, “The ecclesiastical estate in the aforesaid Philipinas islands,” by Pablo Francisco Rodriguez de Berdozido; [Manila], 1742.)
• [The Order of St. John of God]. Juan Maldonado de Puga; 1742.
• [Letter to the president of the India Council]. Pedro Calderon y Enriquez; July 16, 1746.
• [Letter of a Jesuit to his brother]. Antonio Masvesi; December 2, 1749.
• [Commerce of the Philipinas Islands]. Nicolas Norton Nicols; [1759].

Sources: The first document is translated (partly in full and partly in synopsis) from Manifiesta ... del hospital de la Sancta Misericordia (Manila, 1728); from a copy in the possession of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago. The second, from an original MS. in the Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid; part of it (of minor importance) is necessarily omitted here. The third (largely in synopsis), from Religiosa hospitalidad por los hijos del ... S. Ivan de Dios en Philipinas (Granada, 1742); from a copy belonging to E. E. Ayer. The fourth, from an original MS. in the library of the Academia Española, Madrid. The fifth, from a transcript in the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), iv, pp. 297–305. The sixth, from an original MS. (or possibly a contemporaneous copy) in possession of E. E. Ayer.

Translations: The first is made by James Alexander Robertson; the remainder, by Emma Helen Blair.