The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 / 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 XXXVI, 1649–1666

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

Contents of Volume XXXVI

1. [Preface] 9
2. [Documents of 1649–1658]
   1. [Royal funeral rites at Manila]. [Unsigned;] Manila, 1649. 23
   2. [Royal aid for Jesuits asked by Manila cabildo]. Matheo de Arceo, and others; Manila, June 20, 1652. 44
   3. [Condition of the Philippines in 1652]. Magino Sola, S. J.; September 16, 1652. 49
   4. [Jesuit missions in 1655]. Miguel Solana, S. J.; San Pedro, June 30, 1655. 53
   5. [Letter from the archbishop of Manila to Felipe IV]. Miguel de Poblete; Manila, July 30, 1656. 63
   6. [Two Jesuit memorials, regarding religious in the Moluccas, and the Inquisition]. Francisco Vello, S. J.; [Madrid, 1658]. 68
   7. [Jesuit protest against the Dominican university]. Miguel Solana, S. J.; [1658?]. 74
   8. [Description of the Philipinas Islands]. [Ygnacio de Paz; Mexico, ca. 1658]. 87
3. [Documents of 1660–1666]
   1. [Recollect missions, 1646–60]. Luis de Jesús and Diego de Santa Theresa, O.S.A., (Recollect); [compiled from their works]. 109
   2. [Description of Filipinas Islands]. Bartholomé de Letona, O.S.F.; La Puebla, Mexico, 1662. 189
   3. [Events in Manila], 1662–63. [Unsigned; July, 1663?]. 218
   4. [Letter to Francisco Yzquierdo]. Diego de Salcedo; Manila, July 16, 1664. 261
   5. [Why the friars are not subjected to episcopal visitation]. [Unsigned and undated; 1666?]. 264
4. Appendix: [Judicial conditions in the Philippines in 1842] 279
5. [Bibliographical Data] 307

Illustrations

1. Map of Philippine and Ladrone Islands; photographic facsimile of map by Sansón d’Abbeville ([Paris?], 1652); from copy in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. facing p. 50
2. Map of Cavite, with proposed fortifications, by the engineer Juan de Somovilla Tejada; photographic facsimile from original MS. (dated 1663) in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. 93
3. Chart of the island of Luzón, with some of the smaller islands, drawn by a Dutch artist, ca. 1650; photographic facsimile of original MS. map in the British Museum. 191
4. Birds-eye view of bay of Cavite, showing towns, fortifications, etc., by the engineer Richard Carr (in employ of the Dutch), captured in Madrid; photographic facsimile from original MS. (dated 1663), in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. 215