be not spared, for a good beating will correct
more faults than anything else. The jail only acts as an allurement
for the majority of Filipinos, for it is generally better than their
own houses. The laws in force in the islands are a confused mass,
consisting of the Leyes de Indias, royal decrees and orders, the
decrees and edicts of the governors, a portion of the laws of the
Siete Partidas, parts of Roman law, etc. Mas advocates strenuously
the prohibition of trade granted to alcaldes and an extension of their
term of office. One common native language, could such be established,
would be very useful. There should be a commission after the manner
of that in British India, to advise revision in the existing laws.

The Editors

March, 1906.

DOCUMENTS OF 1649-1658

Royal funeral rites at Manila. [Unsigned;] 1649.
Royal aid for Jesuits asked by Manila cabildo. Matheo de Arceo,
and others; June 20, 1652.
Condition of the Philippines in 1652. Magino Sola, S.J.;
September 15, 1652.
Jesuit missions in 1655. Miguel Solana, S.J.; June 30, 1655.
Letter from the archbishop of Manila. Miguel de Poblete;
July 30, 1656.
Two Jesuit memorials. Francisco Vello, S.J.; [1658].
Jesuit protest against the Dominican university. Miguel Solana,
S.J.; [1658?].
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 evangelica, 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.

ROYAL FUNERAL RITES AT MANILA

Funeral ceremonies and the royal pyre of honor erected by piety and
consecrated by the grief of the very distinguished and ever loyal
city of Manila, in memory of the most serene prince of Espana, Don
Balthassar Carlos (may he dwell in glory). By license of the ordinary
and of the government. [Printed] at Manila, by Simon Pinpin, in the
year