The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898
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
Volume VII, 1588–1591
Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.
Contents of Volume VII
- [Preface] ... 9
- [Documents of 1588]
- [Documents of 1589]
- [Excerpt from a letter from the viceroy of India. Manuel de Sousa Coutinho; Goa, April 3] ... 79
- [Letter to Felipe II. Santiago de Vera; Manila, June 13] ... 83
- [Conspiracy against the Spaniards. Santiago de Vera, and others; Manila, May-July] ... 95
- [Letter to Felipe II. [Gaspar] de Ayala; Manila, July 15] ... 112
- [Decree regarding commerce. Felipe II; San Lorenzo, August 9] ... 137
- [Instructions to Gomez Perez Dasmariñas. Felipe II; San Lorenzo, August 9] ... 141 Page 2
- [Customs of the Tagalogs (two relations). Juan de Plasencia, O.S.F.; Manila, October 21] ... 173
- [Documents of 1590]
- [Letter from Portugal to Felipe II. [Lisboa?] ... 199
- [Decree ordering a grant to Salazar. Felipe II; Madrid, April 12] ... 205
- [Letter from members of the suppressed Audiencia to Felipe II. Santiago de Vera, and others; Manila, June 20] ... 208
- [The Chinese and the Parián at Manila. Domingo de Salazar; Manila, June 24] ... 212
- [Two letters to Felipe II. Domingo de Salazar; Manila, June 24] ... 239
- [Decree regulating commerce. Felipe II; San Lorenzo, July 23] ... 262
- [The collection of tributes in the Filipinas Islands. Domingo de Salazar, and others; Manila, 1591] ... 265
- [Bibliographical Data] ... 319