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 XXVII, 1636-37

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

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVII

Preface 9

Documents of 1636

Letter to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera;
Cavite, June 30 21
Letter to Corcuera. Felipe IV; Madrid, October
11 36
Royal decrees. Felipe IV; Madrid, August-November
45

Informatory memorial addressed to the king. Juan Grau y Monfalcon; Madrid, 1637 55

Documents of 1637

Defeat of Moro pirates. [Unsigned; but probably
written by Pedro Gutierrez, S.J., from Dapitan,
in 1637.] 215
Auditorship of accounts in Manila,
1595-1637. [Unsigned; probably written at Madrid,
in February, 1637.] 227
Conquest of Mindanao. Marcelo Francisco Mastrilli,
S.J.; Taytay, June 2 253
Events in Filipinas, 1636-37. Juan Lopez, S.J.;
Cavite, July 23 306
Corcuera's triumphant entry into Manila. Juan Lopez,
Manila, May-July 330
Royal aid requested by the Jesuits at Manila. Francisco
Colin, S.J., and others; Manila, July-August 341
Letters to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera;
Manila, August 20 346

Bibliographical Data 365

ILLUSTRATIONS

Les Isles Philippines, Molucques, et de la Sonde (map
of Indian archipelago); photographic facsimile of map by
Sanson d'Abbeville (Paris, 1654); from original in Library
of Congress, Washington, D. C. 74, 75
View of Acapulco Harbor, in Mexico; photographic facsimile of
engraving in Valentyn's _Oud en Nieuw Oost Indien_ (Dordrecht
and Amsterdam, 1724), i, p. 160; from copy in library of
Wisconsin State Historical Society. 163
Weapons of the Moros; photograph of weapons in the
Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid 223
Map of Borneo; photographic facsimile of engraving in
Valentyn's _Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien_ (Dordrecht and Amsterdam,
1726), iii, between pages 236 and 237; from copy in library
of Wisconsin State Historical Society. 317