The Philippine Islands, 1493–1803
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 beginning of the nineteenth century
Volume V, 1582–1583
Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.
Contents of Volume V
- [Preface] 9
- [Documents of 1582]
- [Letter to Felipe II]. Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñalosa; Manila, June 16 23
- [1][Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas]. Miguel de Loarca; [Arevalo, June, 1582) 34
- [Letter to Felipe II]. Fray Domingo de Salazar; Manila, June 20 188
- [Letter to the viceroy]. Juan Baptista Roman; Cabite, June 25 192
- [Letter to Felipe II]. Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñalosa; Manila, July 1 196
- [Papal decrees regarding the Dominicans]. Gregory XIII; Rome, September 15 and October 20 199
- [Report on the offices saleable in the Philippines]. [Unsigned; 1582?] 202
- [Documents of 1583]
- [Complaints against Peñalosa]. Gabriel de Ribera; [1583?] 207
- [Affairs in the Philipinas Islands]. Domingo de Salazar; [Manila, 1583] 210
- [Instructions to commissary of the Inquisition]. Pedro de los Rios, and others; Mexico, March 1 256
- [Foundation of the Audiencia of Manila] (to be concluded). Felipe II; Aranjuez, May 5 274
- [Bibliographical Data] 319
[1] This document is presented in both [Spanish] text and [English] translation.
Illustrations
- Map of South America and Antilles, showing Strait of Magellan (original in colors), in Beschryvinghe van de gantsche Custe, by Jan Huygen van Linschoten (Amstelredam, M.D.XCVI); reduced photographic facsimile, from copy in Boston Public Library 214, 215
- Autograph signature of Domingo de Salazar, O.P., first bishop of Manila; photographic facsimile from MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 253