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, 1637-38

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

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVIII

Preface. 9

Documents of 1637-38

Remonstrance of Augustinians against the
_alternativa_. Juan Ramirez, O.S.A., and others;
Manila, September 9, 10, 1637. 21
Corcuera's campaign in Jolo. Juan de Barrios, S.J.;
Jolo, March-April, 1638. 41

Appendix: Religious conditions in the Philippines during the Spanish regime

Laws regarding religious in the Philippines. Felipe
II, Felipe III, Felipe IV; 1585-1640. [From
_Recopilacion de las leyes de Indias._] 67
Jesuit missions in 1656. Francisco Colin; Madrid,
1663. [From his _Labor evangelica._] 78
The religious estate in the Philippines. Juan
Francisco de San Antonio, O.S.F.; Manila, 1738. [From
his _Chronicas_.] 104
Religious condition of the islands. Juan J. Delgado,
S.J.; 1751-54. [From his _Historia general._] 163
Ecclesiastical survey of the Philippines. Guillaume
le Gentil; Paris, 1781. [From his _Voyages dans les
mers de l'Inde_.] 192
Character and influence of the friars. Sinibaldo de
Mas; Madrid, 1843. [From his _Informe_.] 226
The ecclesiastical system in the Philippines. Manuel
Buzeta, O.S.A., and Felipe Bravo, O.S.A.; Madrid,
1850. [From their _Diccionario de las Islas
Filipinas_.] 266
Character and influence of the friars. Feodor Jagor;
Berlin, 1873. [From his _Reisen in den Philippinen_.]
290
The Augustinian Recollects in the Philippines. [From
_Provincia de San Nicolas de Tolentino de Agustinos
descalzos_ (Manila, 1879).] 300
Present condition of the Catholic religion in
Filipinas. Jose Algue, S.J., and others; Washington,
1900. [From _Archipielago filipino._] 349

Bibliographical Data 369

ILLUSTRATIONS

Title-page of _Labor evangelica_, by Francisco Colin (Madrid,
1663); photographic facsimile from copy in library of Edward
E. Ayer, Chicago 79
Title-page of vol. i of San. Antonio's _Chronicas de
la apostolica provincia de S. Gregorio_ (Manila, 1738);
photographic facsimile from copy in Harvard University
Library 105
View at Naga, Cebu; from photograph procured in Madrid 155
Title-page of Le Gentil's _Voyages dans les mers de l'Inde_
(Paris, 1781); photographic facsimile of copy in library of
Wisconsin Historical Society 193