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Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, V7, 1588-1591

Author: Emma Helen Blair

Release Date: October 11, 2004 [EBook #13701]

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 VII, 1588-1591

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

Contents of Volume VII

Preface ... 9
Documents of 1588

Relation of the Philipinas Islands. Domingo de Salazar,
and others; Manila, 1586-88 ... 29
Letter to Felipe II. Santiago de Vera, and others;
Manila, June 26 ... 52
Letter to Felipe II. Domingo de Salazar; Manila,
June 27 ... 64

Documents of 1589

Excerpt from a letter from the viceroy of India. Manuel
de Sousa Coutinho; Goa, April 3 ... 79
Letter to Felipe II. Santiago de Vera; Manila, June
13 ... 83
Conspiracy against the Spaniards. Santiago de Vera,
and others; Manila, May-July ... 95
Letter to Felipe II. [Gaspar] de Ayala; Manila,
July 15 ... 112
Decree regarding commerce. Felipe II; San Lorenzo,
August 9 ... 137
Instructions to Gomez Perez Dasmarinas. Felipe II;
San Lorenzo, August 9 ... 141
Customs of the Tagalogs (two relations). Juan de
Plasencia, O.S.F.; Manila, October 21 ... 173

Documents of 1590

Letter from Portugal to Felipe II. [Lisboa?] ... 199
Decree ordering a grant to Salazar. Felipe II; Madrid,
April 12 ... 205
Letter from members of the suppressed Audiencia to
Felipe II. Santiago de Vera, and others; Manila,
June 20 ... 20