Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ 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 XXVI, 1636 Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVI Preface 9 Documents of 1636 The nuns of St. Clare at Manila. Miguel Perez, O.S.F., and others; Manila, 1635-36 19 Relation of 1635-36. [Unsigned; Manila?]; June 31 Letters to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; Manila, June 30 60 Letter to Father Felipe de Cardenas. Cristobal de Lara, S.J.; Manila, July 3 265 Letter to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, Cavite, July 11 269 Hospitals and hospital contributions. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, and others; Manila, July-August 291 Bibliographical Data 315 ILLUSTRATIONS View of city of Manila; photographic facsimile of engraving in Valentyn's _Oud en Nieuw Oost Indien_ (Dordrecht and Amsterdam, 1724), i, p. 154; from copy in library of Wisconsin State Historical Society 33 View of Malacca; photographic facsimile of engraving in _Recueil des voiages ... de la Compagnie des Indes orientales_ (Amsterdam, 1725); from copy in library of Wisconsin State Historical Society 45 Map of Molucca Islands; photographic facsimile of map in Bellin's _Petit atlas maritime_ (Paris, 1764), iii, no. 68; from copy in library of Wisconsin State Historical Society 229 View of the city of Macao; photographic facsimile of engraving in _Recueil des voiages Comp. Indes Orient. Pais-Bas_ (Amsterdam, 1725), v, facing p. 208; from copy in the library of Wisconsin State Historical Society 275 PREFACE The scope of the present volume is confined to the year 1636, but enough of interest occurs within that time--thanks to the overflowing energy of the new governor, Corcuera, who promptly reorganizes all departments of the government; his controversies with the archbishop and the friars; and the difficulties and dissensions which affect the orders themselves. The greater part of this volume is occupied by Corcuera's report for the first year of his governorship.