The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; 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, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 36]

DOCUMENTS OF 1649-1658

Royal funeral rites at Manila. [Unsigned;] I649.
Royal aid for Jesuits asked by Manila cabildo.
Matheo de Arceo, and others; June 20, 1652.
Condition of the Philippines in 1652. Magino Sola,
S.J.; September 15, 1652.
Jesuit missions in I655. Miguel Solana, S.J.; June
30, I655.
Letter from the archbishop of Manila. Miguel de
Poblete; July 30, I656.
Two Jesuit memorials. Francisco Vello, S.J.;
[1658].
Jesuit protest against the Dominican university.
Miguel Solana, S.J.; [1658?].
Description of the Philipinas Islands. [Ygnacio de
Paz; ca. 1658.]
SOURCES: The first of these documents is taken from Retana's Archivo, ii, pp. 105-I58; the second and sixth, from Pastells's edition of Colin's Labor evangelica, iii, pp. 786, 787, and
804, 805; the third and fourth, from the Ventura del Arco MSS.
(Ayer library), ii, pp. 385-389. The following are obtained
from original MSS. in archives as follows: the fifth, in the
Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the seventh, in the Academia
Real de la Historia, Madrid; the eighth, in the Archivo general,
Simancas.
TRANSLATIONS: The fifth document is translated by Robert
W. Haight; the seventh, by Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.; the
remainder, by James A. Robertson.