1. Royal funeral rites at Manila. [Unsigned;] 1649.
2. Royal aid for Jesuits asked by Manila cabildo. Matheo de Arceo, and others; June 20, 1652.
3. Condition of the Philippines in 1652. Magino Sola, S.J.; September 15, 1652.
4. Jesuit missions in 1655. Miguel Solana, S.J.; June 30, 1655.
5. Letter from the archbishop of Manila. Miguel de Poblete; July 30, 1656.
6. Two Jesuit memorials. Francisco Vello, S.J.; [1658].
7. Jesuit protest against the Dominican university. Miguel Solana, S.J.; [1658?].
8. Description of the Philipinas Islands. [Ygnacio de Paz; ca. 1658]

Sources: The first of these documents is taken from Retana’s Archivo, ii, pp. 105–158; the second and sixth, from Pastells’s edition of Colin’s Labor evangÉlica, iii, pp. 786, 787, and 804, 805; the third and fourth, from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), ii, pp. 385–389. The following are obtained from original MSS. in archives as follows: the fifth, in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the seventh, in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the eighth, in the Archivo general, Simancas.

Translations: The fifth document is translated by Robert W. Haight; the seventh, by Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.; the remainder, by James A. Robertson.