Liberty of the Indians in the Philippinas. Gregory XIV;
April 18.
Articles of contract for the conquest of
Mindanao. G. P. Dasmarinas and Estevan Rodriguez de Figueroa;
May 12.
Ordinance forbidding the Indians to wear Chinese
stuffs. G. P. Dasmarinas and others; April 9-May 20.
Account of the encomiendas in the Philippinas
Islands. [G. P. Dasmarinas]; May 31.
Letter to Felipe II. G. P. Dasmarinas; June 20.
The fortification of Manila. G. P. Dasmarinas; June 20.
Investigations at Manila concerning trade with Macan. Melchor
de Baeca, and others; May 23-November 19.

_Sources_: All but two of these documents are obtained from original
MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The papal decree is
found in Hernaez's _Coleccion de bulas_, i, p. 108; the account of
encomiendas is taken from Retana's _Archivo del bibliofilo filipino_,
iv, pp. 41-111.

_Translations_: Such part of the first document as appears in
this volume is translated by Norman F. Hall; the second is by
Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A., of Villanova College; the third and
fifth, by James A. Robertson; the fourth, by Herman G. A. Brauer,
of the University of Wisconsin; the sixth, by Jose M. and Clara
M. Asensio; the seventh, by Henry B. Lathrop, of the University of
Wisconsin; the eighth, by Alfonso de Salvio, of Harvard University.

The Collection of Tributes in the Filipinas Islands (_concluded_)

Letter from the Bishop to the Governor

_Jesus_

Inasmuch as your Lordship wrote to me at San Francisco del Monte that
the encomenderos were urgently seeking from you permission to make
collections from their encomiendas, I despatched to you from that
place an answer to the letter which your Lordship wrote to me after
having received my statement and that of the other theologians of
the bishopric who think carefully about this matter. I had therein
represented to your Lordship some of the difficulties which might
result from carrying into execution some of the plans proposed in the
aforesaid statement. In the reply, I solved these difficulties; and
have since been waiting to learn what your Lordship has communicated
to the encomenderos regarding collections in the encomiendas which
are without religious instruction. Since I must inform all confessors
who are outside the city how they are to deal in the confessional
with the aforesaid encomenderos, I pray your Lordship to favor me by
advising me of your transactions with these e