The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 26 of 55, 1636 / 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

Bibliographical Data

The following documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla:

1. The nuns of St. Clare.—“Simancas—Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes de personas eclesiasticos de Filipinas; aÑos 1609 Á 1644; est. 68, caj. 1, leg. 43.”

2. Letters to Felipe IV from Corcuera.—“Simancas—Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y espedientes del gobernador de Filipinas vistos en el Consejo; aÑos 1629 Á 1639; est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 8.”

3. Letter from Corcuera, July 11.—The same as No. 2.

4. Hospitals and hospital contributions.—The same as No. 2.

The following documents are obtained from MSS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; they are in “Papeles de los Jesuitas:”

5. Relation of 1635–36.—In “tomo 119, n°. 16.”

6. Letter from Lara.—In “tomo 119, n°. 19.”

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