Chapter I: Front Matter

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

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,

Volume XXII, 1625-29

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
Bourne.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXII

Preface
Documents of 1625

Report of the Spanish Council of State
on the appointment of a governor for the
Philippines. Madrid, March 7.
Royal decree granting income to the Society
of Jesus. Felipe IV; Madrid, June 1.
Letter from the archbishop of Manila to Felipe
IV. Miguel García Serrano; July 25.
Royal festivities at Manila. Diego de Rueda
y Mendoza; Manila, August 1.
Letter to Felipe IV. Fernando de Silva;
Manila, August 4.

Documents of 1626

Letter from the archbishop to Felipe IV. Miguel
García Serrano; Manila, July 25.
Letter to Felipe IV. Fernando de Silva;
Manila, July 30.
Letter from the sisters of St. Clare to Felipe
IV. Jeronima de la Asunsion, and others;
Manila, July 31.
Petition for aid to the seminary of San Juan
de Letran. Juan Geronimo de Guerrero; Manila,
August 1.
Royal decrees. Felipe IV; Madrid, June-October.
Military affairs of the islands. [Unsigned];
Sevilla, 1626 (but written at Cebú)

Documents of 1627

Importance of the Philippines. Martin Castaño;
[undated; 1627?]
Relation of 1626. [Unsigned and undated;
_ca._ 1627]
Letter to Tavora. Felipe IV; Madrid,
September 3.
Laws regarding the Sangleys. [From
_Recopilación de leyes de las Indias_];
1594-1627.
Decrees regarding the religious. Felipe IV;
Madrid, May-November.
Decrees regarding the Chinese. Felipe IV;
Madrid, September 10 and November 19.
Inadvisability of a Spanish post on the
island of Formosa. Juan Cevicos; Madrid,
December 20.

Documents of 1628-1629

Relation of 1627-28. [Unsigned]; Manila,
July, 1628.
Report of appointments made by the
governor. Juan Niño de Tavora; Cavite, August
2, 1628.
Letters to Felipe IV. Juan Niño de Tavora;
August 4, 1628.
Economic reasons for suppressing the silk
trade of China in Spain and its colonies. Juan
Velazquez Madrco; October 7, 1628.
Decrees regarding the Chinese. Felipe IV;
Madrid, June, 1628-March, 1629.
Relations of 1628-29. Hernando Estrada,
and others; Manila, etc., 1628-29.

Bibliographical Data

ILLUSTRATIONS

Autograph signature of Fernando de Silva; photographic
facsimile from original MS. in Archivo general de Indias,
Sevilla.
Plan of the city and port of Macao; photographic facsimile of
engraving in Bellin's _Petit atlas maritime_ ([Paris], 1764)
no. 57; from copy in the library of Wisconsin-Historical
Society.