The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 / 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.

Bibliographical Data

The following document is obtained from a MS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla:

1. Letter from the archbishop of Manila.—“Simancas—Eclesiastico; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y espedientes de arzobispo de Manila; aÑos 1579 Á 1697; est. 68, caj. 1, leg. 32.”

The following document is obtained from a MS. in the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid:

2. Jesuit protest.—“Papeles de los Jesuitas, t^o. 4^o., n^o. 259.”

The following document is obtained from a MS. in the Archivo general, Simancas:

3. Paz’s Description of Philipinas.—“Consejo de Inquisicion, libro 786.” (We present such part of this document as relates to the Philippines.)

The following are taken from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library):

4. Condition of Philippines, 1652.—Tomo ii, pp. 385–390.

5. Jesuit missions, 1655.—Tomo ii, pp. 391–399.

6. Events in Manila, 1662–63.—Tomo ii, pp. 421–480.

7. Letter from Salcedo.—Tomo ii, pp. 481–483.

8. Friars and episcopal visitation.—Tomo ii, pp. 401–419.

The following is obtained from Retana’s Archivo:

9. Royal funeral rites.—Tomo ii, pp. 105–158.

The following are taken from Pastells’s edition of Colin’s Labor evangÉlica:

10. 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, 1646–60.—Part ii, by Luis de JesÚs (Madrid, 1681), 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 1662; it is bound in with Letona’s Perfecta religiosa (Puebla, 1662, a rare work), in the copy possessed by Antonio GraiÑo 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. 12.

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