The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 / 1625-29 / 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.

by Unknown

The Editors

October, 1904.

Documents of 1625

• [Report of the Spanish Council of State on the appointment of a governor for the Philippines]. March 7.
• [Royal decree granting income to the Society of Jesus]. Felipe IV; June 1.
• [Letter from the archbishop of Manila to Felipe IV]. Miguel Garcia Serrano; July 25.
• [Royal festivities at Manila]. Diego de Rueda y Mendosa; August 1.
• [Letter to Felipe IV]. Fernando de Silva; August 4.

Sources: The first, third, and fifth of these documents are from MSS. in the Archive general de Indias, Sevilla; the second, from Pastells’s edition of Colin’s Labor evangélica, iii, pp. 754–755; the fourth, from a pamphlet, Toros y cañas (Barcelona, 1903).

Translations: These are all made by James A. Robertson.

Report of the Spanish Council of State on Appointment of a Governor for the Philippines