The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55: 1521-1569; 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 Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55: 1521-1569; 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 Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
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And he declares on the oath taken by him that his entire
deposition is true, and he has affixed his signature to the same.
_Sancho Lopez de Agurto_
Before me, _Johan Augustin_, notary of his Majesty.)
[The sworn depositions of Juan Augustin de Contreras and of Alonso
de Segura, made before Sancho Lopez de Agurto, follow. They are
substantially the same as the above. The document continues:]
(I, the said Sancho Lopez de Agurto, notary of the chamber of the
said royal _Audiencia_ of Nueva España, who was present at the said
inquiry made therein, affixed my seal in testimony of the truth. [119]
_Sancho Lopez de Agurto_)
Bibliographical Data
_Expedition of Garcia de Loaisa_
_Résumé of contemporaneous documents_.--These documents, dated from
1522 to 1537, are briefly synopsized from Navarrete's _Col. de viages_,
v, pp. 193-439. This editor obtained the material for his series from
the archives of Sevilla, Madrid, and Simancas.
_Voyage of Alvaro de Saavedra_
_Résumé of contemporaneous documents_.--These documents are dated in
1527-28, and are published by Navarrete, _ut supra_, pp. 440-486.
_Expedition of Ruy Lopez de Villalobos_
_Résumé of contemporaneous documents_.--These documents, also
synopsized, for the period 1541-48, are obtained from _Doc. inéd._,
as follows: _Ultramar_, ii, part i, pp. 1-94; _Amér. y Oceania_, v,
pp. 117-209, and xiv, pp. 151-165.
_Expedition of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi_
_Résumé of contemporaneous documents_.--These documents, covering
the period 1559-69, are also synopsized from _Doc. inéd. Ultramar_,
ii, pp. 94-475, and iii, pp. v-225, 244-370, 427-463.
_Warrant for establishment of Augustinian Mission_ (1564).--The
original of this document was found among the archives of the
Augustinian convent at Culhuacan, Mexico. The only publication of
this _Patente_ of which we are aware is that (in Latin) from which our
translation is made, in a work by Elviro J. Perez, O.S.A.,--_Catalogo
bio-bibliografico de los religiosos agustinos_ (Manila, 1901),
pp. xi-xiv. At present, we are unable to give further information
concerning the document.
_Possession of Cibabao_ (Feb. 15, 1565).--The original MS. (from
a copy of which our translation is made) is conserved in the
Archivo de Indias at Sevilla; pressmark, "Simancas--Filipinas;
descubrimientos, descripciones y poblaciones de las Islas Filipinas,
años 1537 á 1565; est. 1, caj. 1, leg. 1, 23." It has been published
in _Doc. ined. Ultramar_, i i, pp. 351-355.
_Proclamation regarding gold found in burial places_ (May 16,
1565).--The data for the preceding document apply to this one
also--save that to pressmark should be added "ramo 25;" and that the
pagination for this one in _Doc. ined._ is 355-357.
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