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.

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19. Military affairs of the islands.—In a collection of papers entitled “Tratados Historicos, 1594–1639;” pressmark, “(693. h. 17) / 65.”

The following document is taken from Pastells’s edition of Colin’s Labor evangélica:

20. Royal decree aiding Jesuits, 1625.—In vol. iii, pp. 754, 755, (See also No. 10, ante.)

The following documents are taken from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library):

21. Relation of 1626.—In vol i, pp. 523–545.

22. Relation of 1627–28.—In vol. i, pp. 551–615.

The following document is taken from Recopilación de leyes de las Indias.

23. Laws regarding the Sangleys.—In lib. vi, tit. xviii.

The following document is found in a pamphlet entitled Toros y cañas (Barcelona, 1903), in which is printed a hitherto unpublished original MS. in possession of the Compañia General de Tabacos de Filipinas.

24. Royal festivities at Manila—pp. 9–25.