The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 48, 1751-1765 / 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

by Unknown

DOCUMENTS OF 1751–1762

• [Usurpation of Indian lands by friars]. Fernando VI; November 7, 1751.
• [Moro raids repulsed by Visayans]. [Unsigned; 1755]
• [Augustinian parishes and missions, 1760]. Pedro Velasco, O.S.A.; April 16, 1760.
• [Later Augustinian and Dominican missions]. Antonio Mozo, O.S.A.; 1763. Bernardo Ustáriz, O.P.; 1745.
• [Events in Filipinas], 1739–1762. [Compiled from Martinez de Zúñiga and other writers.]

Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from La Democracia (Manila), November 25, 1901; the second, from a rare pamphlet published at Manila (1755), in the possession of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago; the third, from an original MS. in possession of Mr. Ayer; the fourth, from Mozo’s Noticia histórico natural (Madrid, 1763), and a rare pamphlet by the Dominican Ustáriz, both from copies in the Library of Congress; the fifth, compiled from Zúñiga’s Historia (Sampaloc, 1803), pp. 546–601, and Concepción’s Hist. de Philipinas, xi, pp. 89–237, fully annotated from other writers.

Translations: That of the third document is made by James Alexander Robertson; all the rest, by Emma Helen Blair.