The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 / 1617-1620 / 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. Reforms needed.—“Simancas—Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes del cabildo secular de Manila vistos en el Consejo; años 1570 á 1640; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 27.” Three documents are combined in this one; of these the first is in the original a printed pamphlet with MS. additions.

The following are obtained from MSS. in the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid; all are in the collection “Papeles de los Jesuitas:”

13. Trade with the Far East.—“Tomo 15, no. 19.”

14. Relation of 1617–18.—“Tomo 84, no. 7.”

15. Description of islands.—“Tomo 84, no. 22.”

16. Dutch factories.—“Tomo 135, no. 34.”

17. Relation of 1618–19.—“Tomo 112, no. 55.”