The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 50 / 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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CONTENTS OF VOLUME L

	[Preface]							9
	[Document of1764–1800]
		[Events in Filipinas, 1764–1800]. [Compiledfrom Montero y Vidal’s Historia deFilipinas.]						23
	[MiscellaneousDocuments, 1766–1771]
		[Financial affairs of the islands, 1766]. FranciscoLeandro de Viana; Manila, July 10, 1766.						77
		[Letter from Viana to Carlos III]. F. L. de Viana;Manila, May 1, 1767.						118
		[Anda’s Memorial to the Spanish government].Simon de Anda y Salazar; Madrid, April 12, 1768.						137
		[Ordinances of good government]. [Compiled byGovernors Corcuera (1642), Cruzat y Góngora (1696), andRaón (1768).]						191
		[Instructions to the secular clergy]. Basilio Sanchode Santa Justa y Rufina; Manila, October 25, 1771.						265
		[The expulsion of the Jesuits, 1768–69].[Compiled from various sources.]						269
		[The council of 1771]. [Letter by a Franciscanfriar]; Manila, December 13, 1771.						317
	[Bibliographical Data].							323

ILLUSTRATIONS

	[Plan of the city ofManila and its environs and suburbs on the other side of the river, bythe pilot Francisco Xavier Estorgo y Gallegos, 1770]; photographicfacsimile from original MS. map (in colors) in Archivogeneral de Indias, Sevilla							35
	[Plan of the presentcondition of Manila and its environs, drawn by the engineer FelicianoMárquez, Manila, September 30, 1767]; photographic facsimilefrom original MS. map (in colors) in Archivo general deIndias, Sevilla							83
	[Map of the river ofCagayan, showing town sites along its banks, 1720(?)]; drawn by JuanLuis de Acosta; photographic facsimile from original MS map inArchivo general de Indias, Sevilla							182, 183
	[Map of Manila Bay,port of Cavite, and Lake of Bay, showing depths of various parts of thebay, drawn by the engineer Feliciano Márquez, September 28,1767]; from original MS. map (in colors) in Archivogeneral de Indias, Sevilla							201
	[Map of Guam, one ofthe Marianas Islands], in Concepción’s Historia general (Sampaloc, 1788–1792), vii, facing p.145; photographic facsimile from copy in library of HarvardUniversity							291

PREFACE

In this volume is a brief outline of events from the restoration of Manila by the English (1764) to 1800; and a group of documents relating to the more important topics in the first decade of that period. The condition of the islands and their people at that time is well described by the able and patriotic officials Viana and Anda; and the “ordinances of good government” are an important addition to our sources of information regarding the administration of justice in Filipinas. The most important event of that time was the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish dominions, although its great significance in Europe was but feebly reflected in those remote colonies.