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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4. Letters by Corcuer, 1637.—The same as No. 1.

The following documents are obtained from the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid (the first being a printed book, the others original MSS.):

5. Informatory memorial to king.—This is collated with the MS. copy in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid—pressmark, “MSS. 8990, Aa 47, fol. 273–350.”

6. Defeat of Moro pirates.—In “Papeles de los Jesuitas; tomo 84, nº. 31.”

7. Conquest of Mindanao.—The same as No. 6, save “nº. 24.”

8. Events in Filipinas.—The same as No. 6, save “nº. 26.”

The following documents are taken from the “Cedulario Indico,” in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid:

9. Letter to Corcuera.—In “tomo 39, fol. 219b, nº. 210.”

2. Royal Decrees.—The second and third decrees, “tomo 39, fol. 226b, and 225,” respectively.

The following document is taken from Barrantes’s Guerras piraticas: