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 XXV, 1635-36

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

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXV

Preface 9

Documents of 1635

Laws regarding navigation and commerce, 1611-35. Felipe III
and Felipe IV; 1611-35 23
Royal decrees, 1633-35. Felipe IV; Madrid, 1633-35 38
Memorial to the king, in the year 1635. Juan Grao y
Monfalcon; Madrid, September 6 48
Manila treasury accounts, 1630-35. Gerónimo de ----, and
Francisco Antonio Manzelo; August 18, 1638 74
Letter of consolation to the Jesuits of Pintados. Juan de Bueras,
S.J.; Manila, February 1 87
Letter to Felipe IV. Andres del Sacramento, O.S.F.; Nueva Caceres,
June 2 95
Letter from the Franciscan commissary-general of the Indias.
Francisco de Ocaña, O.S.F.; Madrid, June 28 98
Opinion of Council and royal decree concerning request of
Manila Jesuits for alms. Felipe IV, and others; Madrid,
July 10 100
Letter to Felipe IV. Pedro de Arce; Manila, October 17 104

Documents of 1636

Discussion regarding Portuguese trade at Manila. Joseph de
Navada Alvarado, and others; 1632-36 111
Decree extending the tenure of encomiendas. Felipe IV;
Madrid, February 1 145
Military services of Filipinos. Juan Grau y Monfalcon;
[Madrid], June 13 148
Conflicts between civil and ecclesiastical authorities,
1635-36. Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A.; from his _Conquistas de
las Islas Filipinas_ (published at Valladolid, 1890, but written
early in eighteenth century) 151
Letter from a citizen of Manila to an absent friend. [Unsigned;
Fabian de Santillan y Gavilanes?]; Manila, June 15 201
Request for Jesuit missionaries. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera;
Cavile, June 19 297
Letter from the bishop of Nueva Caceres to Felipe IV. Francisco
de Zamudio, O.S.A.; Manila, June 20 301
List of prominent ecclesiastics in Manila and the islands.
Hernando de Guerrero, archbishop of Manila; 1636 305

Bibliographical Data 321

ILLUSTRATIONS

Map of portion of Philippine Islands and other eastern islands;
photographic facsimile of original Portuguese MS. map of 1635,
by Pedro Berthelot, in the British Museum 56, 57
View of Chinese junks; photographic facsimile of engraving in
_Recueil des voiages Comp. Indes Orient_. Pais-Bas (Amsterdam, 1725)
iii, p. 285; from copy in the library of Wisconsin Historical
Society 116 Plan of the "island of Manila;" drawn by a Portuguese
artist, _ca._ 1635; photographic facsimile of the original MS. map
in British Museum 133
Autograph signature of Sebastian de Corcuera; photographic facsimile
from MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 299