The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649 / 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

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXV

• [Preface] 9
• [Documents of 1640–1644]
  • [The Dominican missions, 1635–39]. Baltasar de Santa Cruz, O.P. [From his Historia de la provincia del Santo Rosario (Zaragoza, 1693).] 25
  • [The Recollect missions, 1625–40]. [Extracts from the works of Juan de la Concepción and Luis de Jesús.] 59
  • [News from Filipinas, 1640–42]. [Unsigned]; [Manila, 1641], and July 25, 1642 114
  • [Decree regarding the Indians]. Felipe IV; Çaragoça, October 24, 1642 125
  • [Formosa lost to Spain]. Juan de los Angeles, O.P.; Macasar, March, 1643 128
  • [Letter to Corcuera]. Felipe IV; Zaragoza, August 4, 1643 163
• [Documents of 1644–1649]
  • [Concessions to the Jesuits]. Balthasar de Lagunilla, S.J., and others; 1640–44 169
  • [Events in the Philippines, 1643–44]. [Unsigned and undated.] 176
  • [Fiscal’s report on Sangley licenses]. Sebastian Cavallero [de Medina]; Manila, 1644 185
  • [Decree ordering reënforcements for the islands]. Felipe IV; Zaragoza, September 18, 1645 196
  • [Erection of the college of Santo Tomás into a university]. Felipe IV and Innocent X; 1644–45 199
  • [Trade with English not desired]. Council of State; Madrid, January 30, 1647 209
  • [Affairs in Filipinas, 1644–47]. Fray Joseph Fayol (of the Order of Mercy); Manila, 1647 212
  • [Decree regarding missionaries]. Felipe IV; Madrid, September 17, 1647 276
  • [Early Franciscan missions]. [Unsigned; written in 1649, and published in 1895.] 278
• [Bibliographical Data] 323

ILLUSTRATIONS

• [Title-page of Historia de la provincia del Santo Rosario de Filipinas], tomo segundo, by Baltasar de Santa Cruz, O. P. (Zaragoça, 1693); photographic facsimile from copy in library of Harvard University 23
• [Native women pounding rice in the province of Cagayán]; from photograph taken by Otto Fischer, 1888; procured in Madrid 49
• [Chart of part of the Philippines]; photographic facsimile of a map taken from a Dutch MS. of 1662; from Dalrymple’s Charts [London], 1778, ii, p. 74; from copy in the Library of Congress 132, 133
• [Rough sketch of Manila and its environs, ca. 1641]; photographic facsimile from original MS. map in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 171

PREFACE

In the present volume, which covers the period 1629–49, the principal topics are the missions of the religious orders and the hostilities between the Spaniards and the Dutch in the eastern seas. The final chapters in this conflict are the capture of Formosa by the Dutch, and the successive defeats of their armed squadrons in contests with the Spanish ships sent against them from Manila. In the loss of Formosa the Dominicans are deprived of their flourishing missions there; but this is compensated by the suppression of Collado’s faction in their order. The Recollect missions in Mindanao sustain some losses; but one of the laborers therein, “Father Captain,” sheds glory on them by his bravery, skill, and devotion. The Franciscan missions are in satisfactory condition; to their strictly religious work they add the care of the hospitals and the lepers. The prosperity of the islands has been greatly injured by the losses of galleons, insufficient crops, the oppressive taxes laid on the Chinese traders, and the great earthquake of 1645.