The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55 / 1599-1602 / 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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12. Complaint of cabildo.—The same as No. 2.

13. Letter from Morga.—The same as No. 6, first part.

14. Grant to Jesuit school.—"Simancas-Audiencia de Filipinas; consultas originales correspondientes á dha Audiencia desde el año 1586 á 1636; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 1."

15. Instructions to Acuña.—"Audiencia de Filipinas; registros de oficio reales ordenes dirigidas á las autoridades del distrito de la Audiencia; años 1597 á 1634; est. 105, caj. 2, leg. 1."

16. Royal decrees, 1602.—The same as No. 15.

17. Pintados menaced.—The same as No. 8.

18. Letters to Felipe III.—The first, second, and fifth, the same as No. 8; the third, the same as No. 10, save that the heading reads, "Simancas-Eclesiastico;" the fourth, the same as No. 6, first part.

Annual letters from the Philippine Islands, 1601.—This document is obtained from a compilation of missionary letters by John Hay, S.J., entitled De rebus Iaponicis Indicis, et Pervanis (Antverpiæ, M. DC. V), pp. 950-968. Our translation is made from a copy of this book in the Library of Congress.

NOTES

[1] Evidently a reference to the memoir of Fray Juan Plasencia upon the customs of the Tagal natives (Vol. VII. pp. 173-196), which was long used as a guide by Spanish magistrates and officials in their dealings with the Indians.