The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 45, 1736 / 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 - Unknown

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA

The matter in the present volume comes from many widely different sources. They are as follows:

1. Commerce of the Philippines.—See bibliographical data of VOL. XLIV, no. 6.

2. Letter from ecclesiastical cabildo.—MS. from Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla, bearing pressmark, “Simancas-Eclesiastico; Audiencia de Filipinas; Cartas y espedientes del cabildo eclesiastico de Filipinas vistos en el consejo, años 1586 á 1670; estante 68, cajón I, legajo 35.”

3. The College of San José.—I, from Colin’s Labor evangelica (Madrid, 1663), book iii, part of chapter xviii, pp. 414–418; from a copy of the original work belonging to Edward E. Ayer. II, compiled from various sources, fully credited in footnotes.

4. The college and university of Santo Tomás.—I, from Baltasar de Santa Cruz’s Historia (Zaragoza, 1693), book i, chapter xxxvi, pp. 168–172; from a copy of the original work belonging to Edward E. Ayer. II, from Algunos documentos relativos á la universidad de Manila (Madrid, 1892), pp. 35–37. III, from Census of the Philippines (Washington, 1905), iii, pp. 622–626.

5. Royal college of San Felipe de Austria.—I, from Casimiro Diaz’s Conquistas (Valladolid, 1890), book ii, portion of chapter xxxv, pp. 446, 447. II, from notes of Pablo Pastells, S.J., in his edition of Colin’s Labor evangélica (Barcelona, 1904), ii, pp. 261–268, 493, 494.

6. Secular priests in the Philippines.—From Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), iii, pp. 9, 10.

7. Royal decree concerning native schools.—From Vicente Barrantes’s Instrucción primaria (Madrid, 1869), pp. 74–76; from copy belonging to the Library of Congress.

8. College-seminary of San Felipe.—I, from MS. in Archivo-histórico Nacional, Madrid, where it is found in legajo 10 of the Jesuit papers. II, from Juan de la Concepción’s Historia general (Sampaloc, 1788–1792), viii, parts of chapters xiii and xiv, pp. 315–338; from a copy of the original work in the possession of the Editors.