The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 / 1636-37 / 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 XXVII, 1636–37

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

Contents of Volume XXVII

1. [Preface] 9
2. [Documents of 1636]
   1. [Letter to Felipe IV]. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; Cavite, June 30 21
   2. [Letter to Corcuera]. Felipe IV; Madrid, October 11 36
   3. [Royal decrees]. Felipe IV; Madrid, August–November 45
3. [Informatory memorial addressed to the king]. Juan Grau y Monfalcon; Madrid, 1637 55
4. [Documents of 1637]
   1. [Defeat of Moro pirates]. [Unsigned; but probably written by Pedro Gutierrez, S.J., from Dapitan, in 1637.] 215
   2. [Auditorship of accounts in Manila, 1595–1637]. [Unsigned; probably written at Madrid, in February, 1637.] 227
   3. [Conquest of Mindanao]. Marcelo Francisco Mastrilli, S.J.; Taytay, June 2 253
   4. [Events in Filipinas, 1636–37]. Juan Lopez, S.J.; Cavite, July 23 306
   5. [Corcuera’s triumphant entry into Manila]. Juan Lopez, Manila, May–July 330
   6. [Royal aid requested by the Jesuits at Manila]. Francisco Colin, S.J., and others; Manila, July–August 341
   7. [Letters to Felipe IV]. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; Manila, August 20 346
5. [Bibliographical Data] 365

Illustrations

1. Les Isles Philippines, Molucques, et de la Sonde (map of Indian archipelago); photographic facsimile of map by Sanson d’Abbeville (Paris, 1654); from original in Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. 74, 75
2. View of Acapulco Harbor, in Mexico; photographic facsimile of engraving in Valentyn’s Oud en Nieuw Oost Indien (Dordrecht and Amsterdam, 1724), i, p. 160; from copy in library of Wisconsin State Historical Society. 163
3. Weapons of the Moros; photograph of weapons in the Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid 223
4. Map of Borneo; photographic facsimile of engraving in Valentyn’s Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (Dordrecht and Amsterdam, 1726), iii, between pages 236 and 237; from copy in library of Wisconsin State Historical Society. 317