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 XXIV, 1630-34

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

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXIV

Preface 11

History of the Augustinian order in the Filipinas Islands
(concluded). Juan de Medina, O.S.A.; 1630 [but printed at
Manila, 1893]. 29

Documents of 1630-1633

Royal letters and decree. Felipe IV; Madrid,
December 4-31, 1630. 183
Letter to Felipe IV from the bishop of
Cebú. Pedro de Arce; Manila, July 31, 1631.
188
Royal orders, 1632-33. Felipe IV; Madrid,
January-March, 1632, and March, 1633. 192
Letters to Felipe IV. Juan Niño de Tavora;
Manila, July 8, 1632. 197
Events in Filipinas, 1630-32. [Unsigned];
Manila, July 2, 1632. 229
Letter from the ecclesiastical cabildo to
Felipe IV. Miguel Garcetas, and others; Manila,
[undated, but 1632]. 245

Documents of 1633-1634

Papal bull concerning missions. Urban VIII;
Maduti, June 28, 1633. 263
News from the Far East, 1632. Fray Juan García,
O.P.; Sevilla, 1633. 273
Letters to Felipe IV. Juan Cerezo de Salamanca;
Manila, August 14, 1633. 279
Report of archbishop on the bakery of
Manila. Hernando de Guerrero; Manila, August
3, 1634. 295
News from Felipinas, Japon, and other
parts. [Unsigned]; Manila, August 20, 1634.
297
Letters to Felipe IV. Juan Cerezo de Salamanca;
Manila, August 10, 1634. 301

Bibliographical Data. 339

ILLUSTRATIONS

Augustinian convent at Manila; photographic view from a plate
in possession of Colegio de Agustinos Filipinos, Valladolid.
_Frontispiece_.
Interior of Augustinian church, Manila; photographic view
from plate in possession of Colegio de Agustinos Filipinos,
Valladolid. 61
Map of the island of Hermosa or Formosa, a portion of China,
and of the island of Manila or Luzón; photographic facsimile
of engraving in _Boletín de la Sociedad Geográfica de Madrid_,
for February, 1882 (Madrid, 1882), xii, no. 2; from copy in
the Library of Congress. 151
View of volcano and town of Ternate (with inset showing
fortress of Gamma-Lamma); photographic facsimile of
engraving in Valentyn's _Beschryving der Moluccos_
(contained in vol. i, _Oud en Nieuw Oost Indien_,
Dordrecht and Amsterdam, 1724), first part, p. 4; from
copy in library of Wisconsin State Historical Society.
281