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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640: 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 centuryAduarte, Diego

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640: 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

Name: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640: 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
Author: Aduarte, Diego

Aduarte, Diego

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

authority that is required by law in order that, after hearing them,
you may administer justice, and furnish redress to those who shall
have been wronged in whatever has been represented to me; for such
is my will. Done at Madrid, February 14, 1640.

    I the King

    By command of the king our sovereign:

    Don Gabrièl de Ocaña y Alarcòn

                      HISTORIA DE LA PROVINCIA DEL
                       SANCTO ROSARIO DE LA ORDEN
                            DE PREDICADORES

By Diego Aduarte, O.P.; Manila, 1640.

Source: Translated from a copy of the above work in the possession
of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago. This volume comprises pp. 1-167.

Translation: This is made by Henry B. Lathrop, of the University
of Wisconsin; it is partly in synopsis. This work will continue in
VOLS. XXXI and XXXII; this volume comprises chaps. i-xxxvii of book i.

    [Translation of title-page: The History of the Province of the
    Holy Rosary, of the Order of Preachers, in Philippinas, Japon,
    and China. By the Right Reverend Don Fray Diego Aduarte, Bishop
    of Nueva Segovia, with additions by the Very Reverend Father
    Fray Domingo Gonçalez, Commissary of the Holy Office, and Regent
    of the College of Sancto Thomas in the same province. With
    license, at Manila, in the College of Sancto Thomas, by Luis
    Beltran, printer. In the year 1640.]

HISTORY OF THE DOMINICAN PROVINCE OF THE HOLY ROSARY

By Fray Diego Aduarte, O.P.

[Aduarte's work [18] is here presented, partly in full translation,
partly in synopsis--the latter portions being, as usual, printed
within brackets.]

BOOK I

CHAPTER I

How the establishment of the Dominican order in the Philipinas Islands
was undertaken

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