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

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8. Decree ordering reënforcements.—From vol. ii, pp. 353–355.

The following document is obtained from the “Cedulario Indico,” in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid:

9. Letter to Corcuera.—In “Tomo 39, fol. 302, n^o. 303.”

The following document is taken from the Archivo general at Simancas:

10. Trade with English.—“2523—Estado Inglaterra.”

The following documents are taken from printed works:

11. Dominican missions.—From Baltasar de Santa Cruz’s Historia de la provincia del Santo Rosario (Zaragoça, 1693), pp. 1–23.

12. Recollect missions.—From Luis de Jesús’s Historia de los religiosos descalzos de San Augustin (Madrid, 1681), pp. 69–71, 163–173, 184, 282–287, 294–298; and Juan de la Concepción’s Historia de Philipinas, v, pp. 163–179, 360–391.

13. Report on Sangley licenses.—From a rare and perhaps unique pamphlet (Manila, 1644), in possession of Edward E. Ayer.

14. Erection of Santo Tomás into university.—From Documentos relativos á la Universidad de Manila (Madrid, 1892), pp. 23–30. The letter to Siruela is obtained from a MS. in the Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, with pressmark, “2780, 24—4^a, caja n^o. 7.”