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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55: 1620-1621; 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 19 of 55: 1620-1621; 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

   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 Felipe III. Hieronimo
            Legaspi de Cheverria, and others; Manila, August 8.

            Letter to Felipe III. Alonso Fajardo de Tenza: Manila,
            August 15.
            Letter to Alonso Fajardo de Tenza. Felipe III; Madrid,
            December 13.

    Memorial, y relacion para sv magestad, Hernando de los Rios
    Coronel; Madrid, 1621.
    Bibliographical Data.
    Appendix: Buying and selling prices of Oriental products. Martin
    Castanos (in part); (undated.)

Illustrations

    Autograph signature of Alonso Fajardo de Tenza; photographic
    facsimile from MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla
    Title-page of _Memorial y relacion_, by Hernando de los Rios
    Coronel (Madrid, 1621); photographic facsimile from copy in
    Library of Congress

Preface

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