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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55: 1636-37; 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 27 of 55: 1636-37; 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 XXVII, 1636-37

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

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVII

Preface      9

Documents of 1636

        Letter to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera;
        Cavite, June 30      21
        Letter to Corcuera. Felipe IV; Madrid, October
        11  36
        Royal decrees. Felipe IV; Madrid, August-November
        45

Informatory memorial addressed to the king. Juan Grau y
Monfalcon; Madrid, 1637      55

Documents of 1637

        Defeat of Moro pirates. [Unsigned; but probably
        written by Pedro Gutierrez, S.J., from Dapitan,
        in 1637.]      215
        Auditorship of accounts in Manila,
        1595-1637. [Unsigned; probably written at Madrid,
        in February, 1637.]  227
        Conquest of Mindanao. Marcelo Francisco Mastrilli,
        S.J.; Taytay, June 2      253
        Events in Filipinas, 1636-37. Juan Lopez, S.J.;
        Cavite, July 23      306
        Corcuera's triumphant entry into Manila. Juan Lopez,
        Manila, May-July      330
        Royal aid requested by the Jesuits at Manila. Francisco
        Colin, S.J., and others; Manila, July-August      341
        Letters to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera;
        Manila, August 20      346

Bibliographical Data      365

ILLUSTRATIONS

    Les Isles Philippines, Molucques, et de la Sonde (map
    of Indian archipelago); photographic facsimile of map by
    Sanson d'Abbeville (Paris, 1654); from original in Library
    of Congress, Washington, D. C.      74, 75
    View of Acapulco Harbor, in Mexico; photographic facsimile of
    engraving in Valentyn's _Oud en Nieuw Oost Indien_ (Dordrecht
    and Amsterdam, 1724), i, p. 160; from copy in library of
    Wisconsin State Historical Society.  163
    Weapons of the Moros; photograph of weapons in the
    Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid      223
    Map of Borneo; photographic facsimile of engraving in
    Valentyn's _Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien_ (Dordrecht and Amsterdam,
    1726), iii, between pages 236 and 237; from copy in library
    of Wisconsin State Historical Society.      317

PREFACE

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