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 I660-i666

Recollect missions, I646-60. Luis de Jesus and
Diego de Santa Theresa, O.S.A. (Recollect);
[compiled from their works].
Description of Filipinas Islands. 'Bartholome de
Letona, O.S.F.; I662.
Events in Manila, I662-63. [Unsigned; July,
1663?].
Letter to Francisco Yzquierdo. Diego de Salcedo;
July 16, 1664.
Why the friars are not subjected to episcopal visitation. [Unsigned and undated; I666?].
SOURCES: The first of these documents is taken from the
Historia general de los religiosos descalzos... de San
Agustin: part II, by Luis de Jesus (Madrid, I68I), from a copy
in the library of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago; and part III, by
Diego de Santa Theresa (Barcelona, 1743), from a copy
in the Library of Congress. The second is from a pamphlet
bound in with a copy (in the possession of Antonio Graiiio y Martinez, Madrid) of Letona's Perfecta religiosa (Puebla, Mexico,
I662), a rare work. The remainder are from the Ventura del
Arco MSS. (Ayer library), ii, pp. 401-483.
TRANSLATIONS: The first and fifth of these are translated
by James A. Robertson; the remainder, by Emma Helen Blair.