The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736 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.

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 manu...

Sources: The first of these documents is compiled from Murillo Velarde's Historia de Philipinas (Manila, 1749), using such parts as directly relate to the missionary labors of t...

[Fol. 22:] The island of Malindig--named thus on account of a high mountain that is in it, and which the Spaniards call Marinduque--is more than forty leguas from Manila, extend...

[Fol. 63 b:] In the islands of Pintados those first laborers made such haste that by this time [1633] there remained no heathens to convert, and they labored perseveringly in mi...

[Fol. 121 (sc. 120):] The Joloans having been subjected by the bravery of Don Pedro de Almonte, they began to listen to the gospel, and they went to fix their abodes in the shel...

The soil is very poor, and the greater part of the provisions and clothing must be carried from Manila; and consequently a thousand miseries are suffered during the year without...

[Fol. 231 b:] The archbishop had seen in the publication of the jubilee the persistence with which the Jesuits labored in the confessional; and desiring to finish gathering in t...

In each of our villages there is a "Congregation of the Blessed Virgin," which enjoys many indulgences and favors; its members display great fervor, attend regularly, and perfor...

From this grievous neglect it results that it is impossible for us to carry out our desire for the new conversions and reductions so earnestly charged by his Majesty; for if at...

Finally, Sir, our lofty desire for the general welfare of so many provinces, and the pleasure which we shall all feel in the prosperity and success of your Lordship--which, as [...

[In 1719 the royal Audiencia is broken up by the lack of auditors: Torralba being imprisoned in Fort Santiago, two others--Julian de Velasco and Francisco Fernandez Toribio--bei...

On the other hand, it would seem to me desirable that his Majesty command that in the residencia which will be taken of this poor man's government there be no discussion of his...

From this stoppage of friendly relations and lack of civility which I began to experience in regard to this matter, and on account of the news that I had of the repeated deliber...

By the letters which I wrote to your Grace, in the aforesaid last year, you will be fully informed of the extraordinary quarrel in which I was involved by the bad counsel and se...

The former bishop of the province of Zebu in these islands, Don Fray Sebastian de Foronda, had done me the favor of lending to me six thousand pesos for the payment of a debt. T...

18. On receiving this information, despatches were sent on June 5, 1697, to the viceroy and Audiencia of Mexico and to the governor and Audiencia of Philipinas, informing them t...

"In the books of the carriers [72] in which is set down the silver which has been carried to the port [of Acapulco], and the merchandise which has been transported to this kingd...

55. The Marqués de Valero, then viceroy of Mexico, in a letter of March 12, 1719--accompanied by a duplicate of another letter dated June 20, 1718, in which he acknowledged the...

75. The Audiencia of Manila in a letter of November 9, 1722, taking into consideration another which they had written on August 6, 1713, in which they set forth the losses which...

87. [This memorial by the city and merchants of Manila presents in detail the amount of their annual commerce in the various kinds of merchandise that are permitted in the decre...

93-94. [These replies by the merchants of Andalusia call forth another memorial from the Manila deputies, which occupies fourteen printed sheets. They repeat their former argume...

122-127. [The deputies of Manila were not satisfied that this concession should be limited to a term of two years, and again petitioned the king, asking that the trial be made f...

[39] "Because of the controversies which Señor Camacho had had with the regulars about subjecting them to the visitation, the pope issued a brief, in which that subjection was d...

[77] It is apparently a lapsus calami by which the consulate of Cadiz is mentioned in nos. 61-64, and that of Sevilla in nos. 45-50, here cited in the text; but the commerce of...