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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666: 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 36, 1649-1666: 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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DOCUMENTS OF 1649-1658


    Royal funeral rites at Manila. [Unsigned;] 1649.
    Royal aid for Jesuits asked by Manila cabildo. Matheo de Arceo,
    and others; June 20, 1652.
    Condition of the Philippines in 1652. Magino Sola, S.J.;
    September 15, 1652.
    Jesuit missions in 1655. Miguel Solana, S.J.; June 30, 1655.
    Letter from the archbishop of Manila. Miguel de Poblete;
    July 30, 1656.
    Two Jesuit memorials. Francisco Vello, S.J.; [1658].
    Jesuit protest against the Dominican university. Miguel Solana,
    S.J.; [1658?].
    Description of the Philipinas Islands. [Ygnacio de Paz;
    ca. 1658]



Sources: The first of these documents is taken from Retana's Archivo,
ii, pp. 105-158; the second and sixth, from Pastells's edition
of Colin's Labor evangélica, iii, pp. 786, 787, and 804, 805; the
third and fourth, from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library),
ii, pp. 385-389. The following are obtained from original MSS. in
archives as follows: the fifth, in the Archivo general de Indias,
Sevilla; the seventh, in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid;
the eighth, in the Archivo general, Simancas.


Translations: The fifth document is translated by Robert W. Haight;
the seventh, by Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.; the remainder, by James
A. Robertson.






ROYAL FUNERAL RITES AT MANILA


Funeral ceremonies and the royal pyre of honor erected by piety and
consecrated by the grief of the very distinguished and ever loyal
city of Manila, in memory of the most serene prince of España, Don
Balthassar Carlos (may he dwell in glory). By license of the ordinary
and of the government. [Printed] at Manila, by Simon Pinpin, in the
year 1649.


[This document is presented in translation and synopsis, because of the
light it throws on the religio-social life of Manila in the middle of
the seventeenth century. It is preceded by the license to print given
(June 5, 1649), for the archbishop by Doctor Don Juan Fernandez de
Ledo, precentor of Manila cathedral, judge-provisor, official and
vicar-general of the archbishopric; by that of the government, given
(May 27, 1649), on recommendation of Joseph de la Anunciacion, prior
of the Recollect convent in Manila; and by a letter (dated Manila,
December 15, 1648, and signed by Lucas de Porras, Gabriel Gomez del
Castillo, and Diego Morales) addressed to the governor Diego Faxardo
y Chacon, which amounts to a dedicatory epistle. The relation begins
with the grief that comes to the city of Manila with the announcement
of the sudden death (at the age of seventeen) of the prince Balthasar
Carlos, heir to the throne and son of Felipe IV and Isabel of Bourbon,
who had died but a short time before. The document continues:]

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