Events in Philipinas, 1638-39. [Unsigned; probably Juan Lopez, 1639.] Letters to the Holy Misericordia. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; December 4, 1637, and October 26, 1639. The university of Santo Tomás. Felipe IV; November 9, 1639. Royal orders and decrees. Felipe IV; 1639. Events in the Filipinas Islands, 1639-40. [Juan Lopez?]; August, 1640. Relation of the insurrection of the Chinese. [Unsigned and undated; probably in March, 1640.] Ecclesiastical and Augustinian affairs, 1630-40. Casimiro Diaz; [1718?]. [From his Conquistas.] Relation of the Filipinas Islands. [Diego de Bobadilla, S.J.; 1640.] Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from a MS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the second, from a MS. volume in the library of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago; the third, and the eighth decree in the fourth, from the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the fourth (except the above-mentioned decree), from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; the fifth and sixth, from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library); the seventh, from Diaz's Conquistas, pp. 267-444; the eighth, from Thevenot's Voyages curieux, t. i, part ii--from a copy belonging to the library of Harvard University. Translations: These are made by James A. Robertson--except the fifth, sixth, and seventh, and two decrees in the fourth, by Emma Helen Blair. EVENTS IN THE PHILIPINAS FROM THE YEAR 1638 TO THAT OF 1639 Today, August 14, I learned that thirteen Macasars and Basilas, of those who had been sold as slaves, had fled in a small boat, and that they had been furnished with arms. Some suspected that the Lascars aided them. A few days before, six of them had fled, but they were captured and brought to this port by the Indians of Maragondon. At the end of September Nuestra Señora del Rosario [i.e., our Lady of the Rosary] was robbed. Only three jewels were taken from her--a diamond of the value of one thousand two hundred pesos; a cross of smaller diamonds; and a gold rosary. The holy image was found in a prostrate condition. It is said that there are some indications of the robber. A portion of the robe was found in the possession of a soldier; but he says that he found it on the ground, and it has been impossible to prove anything else. In the beginning of October came a despatch from Sanboangan, in which it is declared that although the Spaniards tried to constrain Cachil Moncay to make his men pay the tribute, he replied that he would not do so, but that he would take arms and declare war. In fact, he retired to the mountains and took captive Father Francisco Angel; but another chief, his opponent, had the boldness to take the father from him and deliver him to the Spaniards.