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 XXXVIII, 1674-1683

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
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXVIII

Preface 9

Miscellaneous Documents, 1674-1683

Manila and the Philippines about 1650 (concluded).
Domingo Fernandez Navarrete, O.P.; Madrid, 1676. [From
his Tratados historicos.] 17
Condition of the clergy of the Philippines. Pedro
Diaz del Cosio, O.P., and others; Madrid, 1674-75 72
Prerogatives of ex-provincials granted to Augustinian
procurators from Filipinas, Innocent XI; Rome,
December 17, 1677 76
Royal patronage extended to the university of
Santo Tomás. Carlos II; Madrid, May 17, 1680 78
Letter to Carlos II. Francisco Pizarro Orellana; Manila,
February 24, 1683 81
Insurrections by Filipinos in the seventeenth
century. [Accounts by various early writers covering the
period 1621-83.] 87
Dampier in the Philippines (to be concluded). William
Dampier; London, 1697 241

Bibliographical Data 287

ILLUSTRATIONS

Map of Manila and its suburbs; photographic facsimile from
original MS. (dated 1671) in Archivo general de Indias,
Sevilla 45
The Philippine Islands; photographic facsimile of map drawn
by Captain John Kempthorne, ca. 1688; (evidently from earlier
map of 1676); from original manuscript map in the British
Museum 95
Map of portion of Philippine Islands; drawn by William Hacke,
ca. 1680; photographic facsimile from original manuscript map
in the British Museum 213
Inhabitants of the Ladrones Islands; photographic facsimile
of engraving in T. de Bry's Peregrinationes, 1st ed.
(Amsterdam, 1602), tome xvi, no. iv, p. 34; from copy in
Boston Public Library 257