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]

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The following is obtained from Retana's Archivo:
9. Royal funeral rites.- Tomo ii, pp. I05-I58.
The following are taken from Pastells's edition of
Colin's Labor evangelica:
io. Aid asked for Jesuits. - Tomo iii, pp. 786,
787.
11. Two Jesuit memorials.- Tomo iii, pp. 804,
805.
The following is taken from Historia general de
los religiosos descalzos... de San Agustin:
12. Recollect missions, 646-60. -Part ii, by
Luis de Jesus (Madrid, I68I), pp. 371-373, from a
copy in the possession of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago;
and part iii, by Diego de Santa Theresa (Barcelona,
1743), pp. 134-558, from a copy in the Library of
Congress-using only such matter as relates to the
Philippines.
The following is obtained from an old pamphlet
not usually included in Philippine bibliographies:
13. Description of Filipinas, 1662.- From a
pamphlet published at Puebla, Mexico, in I662; it is
bound in with Letona's Perfecta religiosa (Puebla,
1662, a rare work), in the copy possessed by Antonio
Graifio y Martinez, Madrid.
The following is obtained from Sinibaldo de
Mas's Informe de las Islas Filipinas:
14. Administracion de Justicia (1842).- Vol. ii,
no. I2.