The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 / 1621-1624 / 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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[1] A decree of like tenor was sent to the Audiencia on the same date. It is quite probable that similar decrees were sent to all the orders.

Documents of 1623–1624

• [Letter to Fajardo]. Felipe IV; October 9, 1623.
• [Royal permission for the Dominican college in Manila]. Felipe IV; November 27, 1623.
• [Expedition to the mines of the Igorrotes]. Alonso Martin Quirante; June 5, 1624.

Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from the “Cedulario Indico” in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; the second, from Algunos documentos relat. Univ. de Manila, p. 21, and Pastells’s edition of Colin’s Labor evangélica, iii, p. 565; the third, from a MS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

Translations: All these are made by James A. Robertson.

Letter from Felipe IV to Fajardo

The King. Don Alonso de Tenza, knight of the Order of Alcantara, my governor and captain-general of the Philipinas Islands, and president of my royal Audiencia thereof: The letter which you wrote me on August 20, 1622, containing information regarding the state of those islands, has been received; and in my royal Council of the Indias the points that belong to their province have been considered, and you will be furnished with the resolutions adopted thereon.