ter to Felipe IV. Andres del Sacramento, O.S.F.; Nueva Caceres,
June 2 95
Letter from the Franciscan commissary-general of the Indias.
Francisco de Ocana, O.S.F.; Madrid, June 28 98
Opinion of Council and royal decree concerning request of
Manila Jesuits for alms. Felipe IV, and others; Madrid,
July 10 100
Letter to Felipe IV. Pedro de Arce; Manila, October 17 104

Documents of 1636

Discussion regarding Portuguese trade at Manila. Joseph de
Navada Alvarado, and others; 1632-36 111
Decree extending the tenure of encomiendas. Felipe IV;
Madrid, February 1 145
Military services of Filipinos. Juan Grau y Monfalcon;
[Madrid], June 13 148
Conflicts between civil and ecclesiastical authorities,
1635-36. Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A.; from his _Conquistas de
las Islas Filipinas_ (published at Valladolid, 1890, but written
early in eighteenth century) 151
Letter from a citizen of Manila to an absent friend. [Unsigned;
Fabian de Santillan y Gavilanes?]; Manila, June 15 201
Request for Jesuit missionaries. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera;
Cavile, June 19 297
Letter from the bishop of Nueva Caceres to Felipe IV. Francisco
de Zamudio, O.S.A.; Manila, June 20 301
List of prominent ecclesiastics in Manila and the islands.
Hernando de Guerrero, archbishop of Manila; 1636 305

Bibliographical Data 321

ILLUSTRATIONS

Map of portion of Philippine Islands and other eastern islands;
photographic facsimile of original Portuguese MS. map of 1635,
by Pedro Berthelot, in the British Museum 56, 57
View of Chinese junks; photographic facsimile of engraving in
_Recueil des voiages Comp. Indes Orient_. Pais-Bas (Amsterdam, 1725)
iii, p. 285; from copy in the library of Wisconsin Historical
Society 116 Plan of the "island of Manila;" drawn by a Portuguese
artist, _ca._ 1635; photographic facsimile of the original MS. map
in British Museum 133
Autograph signature of Sebastian de Corcuera; photographic facsimile
from MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 299

PREFACE

The scope of the present volume (1635-36) is mainly commercial and
financial matters on the one hand, and ecclesiastical affairs on the
other. The paternalistic tendencies of the Spanis