The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 / 1606-1609 / 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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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 XIV, 1606–1609

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.

Contents of Volume XIV

• [Preface] 9
• [Documents of 1605]
  • [Complaints against the archbishop.] Pedro de Acuña, and others; Manila, July 1–4 29
  • [Relations with the Chinese.] Pedro de Acuña, and others; Manila, July 4 and 5 38
  • [Letters to Felipe III.] Pedro de Acuña, Manila, July 1–15 53
• [Documents of 1606]
  • [The Dominican mission of 1606.] Diego Aduarte, O.P., and others; 1604–06 81
  • [The Dutch factory at Tidore.] Joan ———; Tidore, March 16 112
  • [The Sangley insurrection of 1603.] Miguel Rodriguez de Maldonado; Sevilla, 1606 119
  • [Letter from the Audiencia to Felipe III.] Telles de Almaçan, and others; Manila, July 6 140
  • [Letter from the fiscal to Felipe III.] Rodrigo Diaz Guiral; Manila, July 149
  • [The Terrenate expedition.] Council of the Indias; San Lorenzo, August 5 and 15 173
  • [Decree establishing a way-station for Philippine vessels on the California coast.] Felipe III; San Lorenzo el Real, August 19 182
  • [Chinese immigration in the Philippines.] Pedro Muñoz de Herrera, and others; July–November 189
  • [Letter to Acuña.] Felipe III; Ventosilla, November 4 193
• [Documents of 1607]
  • [Petition for a grant to the Jesuit seminary in Leyte.] Madrid, January 18 199
  • [Artillery at Manila in 1607.] Alonso de Biebengud; Manila, July 6 201
  • [Letter from Audiencia to Felipe III, on the Confraternity of La Misericordia.] Pedro Hurtado Desquivel; Manila, July 11 208
  • [Trade of the Philippines with Mexico.] Madrid, December 18 214
  • [Passage of missionaries via the Philippines to Japan.] Conde de Lemos, and others; Madrid, 1606–07 218
• [Documents of 1608–09]
  • [Annual receipts and expenditures of the Philippine government.] Pedro de Caldierva de Mariaca; Manila, Aug. 18, 1608 243
  • [Decrees regarding way-station for Philippine vessels.] Felipe III; [Aranjuez.], September 27, 1608, and San Lorenzo, May 13, 1609 270
  • [Letters to Juan de Silva.] Felipe III; May 26 and July 29, 1609 278
  • [Expeditions to the province of Tuy.] Juan Manuel de la Vega; Passi, July 3, 1609 281
  • [Petition of a Filipino chief for redress.] Miguel Banal; Quiapo, July 25, 1609 327
  • [Despatch of missionaries to the Philippines.] Diego Aduarte, and others; [1608–09?] 330
• [Bibliographical Data] 339

Illustrations

• Aqvapolqve (view of harbor of Acapulco, Mexico); photographic facsimile of engraving in Levinus Hulsius’s Eigentliche uund wahrhaftige Beschreibung (Franckfurt am Mayne, M. DC. XX), p. 60; from copy in library of Harvard University 103
• View of Japanese champan; photographic facsimile of engraving in T. de Bry’s Peregrinationes, 1st ed. (Amsterdame, 1602), tome xvi, no. iv—“Voyage faict entovr de l’univers par Sr. Olivier dv Nort”—p. 42; from copy in Boston Public Library 223

Preface