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 XXXVIII, 1674-1683 Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. The Arthur H. Clark Company Cleveland, Ohio MCMVI CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXVIII Preface 9 Miscellaneous Documents, 1674-1683 Manila and the Philippines about 1650 (concluded). Domingo Fernandez Navarrete, O.P.; Madrid, 1676. [From his Tratados historicos.] 17 Condition of the clergy of the Philippines. Pedro Diaz del Cosio, O.P., and others; Madrid, 1674-75 72 Prerogatives of ex-provincials granted to Augustinian procurators from Filipinas, Innocent XI; Rome, December 17, 1677 76 Royal patronage extended to the university of Santo Tomás. Carlos II; Madrid, May 17, 1680 78 Letter to Carlos II. Francisco Pizarro Orellana; Manila, February 24, 1683 81 Insurrections by Filipinos in the seventeenth century. [Accounts by various early writers covering the period 1621-83.] 87 Dampier in the Philippines (to be concluded). William Dampier; London, 1697 241 Bibliographical Data 287 ILLUSTRATIONS