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Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898
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, Volume XIX, 1620-1621

Author: Emma Helen Blair

Release Date: June 17, 2005 [EBook #16086]

Language: English

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

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,

Volume XIX, 1620-1621

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
Bourne.

Contents of Volume XIX

Preface
Documents of 1620

Reforms needed in the Filipinas (concluded). Hernando de
los Rios Coronel; (Madrid, 1619-20)
Letter to Alonso de Escovar. Francisco de Otaco, S.J.;
Madrid, January 14.
Decree ordering reforms in the friars' treatment of the
Indians. Felipe III; Madrid, May 29.
Relation of events in the Philipinas Islands,
1619-20. (Unsigned); Manila, June 14.
Compulsory service by the Indians. Pedro de Sant Pablo,
O.S.F.; Dilao, August 7.
Letter from the Audiencia to F