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 XXXV, 1640-1649

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

The Arthur H. Clark Company
Cleveland, Ohio
MCMVI

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXV

Preface 9

Documents of 1640-1644

The Dominican missions, 1635-39. Baltasar de Santa Cruz,
O.P. [From his Historia de la provincia del Santo Rosario
(Zaragoza, 1693).] 25

The Recollect missions, 1625-40. [Extracts from the works
of Juan de la Concepción and Luis de Jesús.] 59

News from Filipinas, 1640-42. [Unsigned]; [Manila, 1641],
and July 25, 1642 114

Decree regarding the Indians. Felipe IV; Çaragoça, October
24, 1642 125

Formosa lost to Spain. Juan de los Angeles, O.P.; Macasar,
March, 1643 128

Letter to Corcuera. Felipe IV; Zaragoza, August 4, 1643 163

Documents of 1644-1649

Concessions to the Jesuits. Balthasar de Lagunilla, S.J.,
and others; 1640-44 169

Events in the Philippines, 1643-44. [Unsigned and undated.] 176

Fiscal's report on Sangley licenses. Sebastian Cavallero
[de Medina]; Manila, 1644 185

Decree ordering reënforcements for the islands. Felipe IV;
Zaragoza, September 18, 1645 196

Erection of the college of Santo Tomás into a university.
Felipe IV and Innocent X; 1644-45 199

Trade with English not desired. Council of State; Madrid,
January 30, 1647 209

Affairs in Filipinas, 1644-47. Fray Joseph Fayol (of the
Order of Mercy); Manila, 1647 212

Decree regarding missionaries. Felipe IV; Madrid, September
17, 1647 276

Early Franciscan missions. [Unsigned; written in 1649, and
published in 1895.] 278

Bibliographical Data 323

ILLUSTRATIONS

Title-page of Historia de la provincia del Santo Rosario
de Filipinas, tomo segundo, by Baltasar de Santa Cruz,
O. P. (Zaragoça, 1693); photographic facsimile from copy in
library of Harvard University 23

Native women pounding rice in the province of Cagayán; from
photograph taken by Otto Fischer, 1888; procured in Madrid 49
Chart of part of the Philippines; photographic facsimile of
a map taken from a Dutch MS. of 1662; from Dalrymple's Charts
[London], 1778, ii, p. 74; from copy in the Library of
Congress 132, 133

Rough sketch of Manila and its environs, ca. 1641; photographic
facsimile from original MS. map in Archivo general de Indias,
Sevilla 171