de Almacan,
and others; Manila, July 6 140
Letter from the fiscal to Felipe III. Rodrigo Diaz Guiral;
Manila, July 149
The Terrenate expedition. Council of the Indias; San
Lorenzo, August 5 and 15 173
Decree establishing a way-station for Philippine vessels
on the California coast. Felipe III; San Lorenzo el Real,
August 19 182
Chinese immigration in the Philippines. Pedro Munoz de
Herrera, and others; July-November 189
Letter to Acuna. Felipe III; Ventosilla, November 4 193

Documents of 1607

Petition for a grant to the Jesuit seminary in
Leyte. Madrid, January 18 199
Artillery at Manila in 1607. Alonso de Biebengud; Manila,
July 6 201
Letter from Audiencia to Felipe III, on the Confraternity
of La Misericordia. Pedro Hurtado Desquivel; Manila,
July 11 208
Trade of the Philippines with Mexico. Madrid, December
18 214
Passage of missionaries via the Philippines to Japan. Conde
de Lemos, and others; Madrid, 1606-07 218

Documents of 1608-09

Annual receipts and expenditures of the Philippine
government. Pedro de Caldierva de Mariaca; Manila, Aug. 18,
1608 243
Decrees regarding way-station for Philippine
vessels. Felipe III; [Aranjuez.], September 27, 1608,
and San Lorenzo, May 13, 1609 270
Letters to Juan de Silva. Felipe III; May 26 and July 29,
1609 278
Expeditions to the province of Tuy. Juan Manuel de la Vega;
Passi, July 3, 1609 281
Petition of a Filipino chief for redress. Miguel Banal;
Quiapo, July 25, 1609 327
Despatch of missionaries to the Philippines. Diego Aduarte,
and others; [1608-09?] 330

Bibliographical Data 339

ILLUSTRATIONS

Aqvapolqve (view of harbor of Acapulco, Mexico); photographic
facsimile of engraving in Levinus Hulsius's _Eigentliche uund
wahrhaftige Beschreibung_ (Franckfurt am Mayne, M. DC. XX), p. 60;
from copy in library of Harvard University 103
View of Japanese champan; photographic facsimile of engraving in
T. de Bry's _Peregrinationes_, 1st ed. (Amsterdame, 1602), tome
xvi, no. iv--"Voyage faict entovr de l'univers par Sr. Olivier
dv Nort"--p. 42; from copy in Boston Public Library 223

PREFACE

The documents here presented range from 1605 to 1609. Many of them
concern the Ch