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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55: 1597-1599; 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

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55: 1597-1599; 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

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

I am having some galliots and light vessels built to patrol all these
coasts, because their defense is quite important if we are attacked
by the Japanese.

When I became governor of these islands, I found them full of
Sangleys. I have expelled more than eight thousand of them, and I am
gathering the others, who are scattered, into Manila, in order that
those who are not needed may return to their own country, for they
teach the natives very evil customs. In everything I shall always
try to further the service of God and your Majesty, as I was ordered
to do, and is my duty. May our Lord preserve your Majesty's Catholic
person as is needful. Manila, August twelve, 1597.

_Don Francisco Tello_



Documents of 1598



    Letter to Antonio de Morga. Juan de Ronquillo; January 4.
    Report of conditions in the Philippines. Antonio de Morga; June 8.
    Recommendations as to reforms needed in the islands. [Unsigned
    and undated; 1598?]
    Reception of the royal seal at Manila. Francisco Tello, and others;
    June 8.
    Letters from the archbishop of Manila to Felipe II. Ygnacio de
    Santibañez; June 24 and 26.
    Letters from the bishop of Nueva Segovia to Felipe II. Miguel de
    Benavides; June 30 and July 5.
    Letters to Felipe II. Francisco Tello; June 17-July 9.
    Report of the Audiencia on the conduct of Tello. Antonio de Morga,
    and others; July 15.



_Source_: All these documents are obtained from original MSS. in the
Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

_Translations_: The first, fourth, fifth, and most of the sixth,
are translated by Robert W. Haight; the second, by Rachel King; the
third, and part of the sixth and seventh, by James A. Robertson;
most of the seventh, by José M. and Clara M. Asensio; the eighth,
by Helen E. Thomas.




Letter from Juan Ronquillo to Antonio de Morga

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