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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736: 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. — John Shaqi

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736: 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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and the latter becoming alarmed at the precarious condition of both
its American trade and the Spanish industry and commerce in silk
fabrics. Manila tries to show that its trade in Chinese silks is
necessary to the propagation of the Christian faith in China, and
to its maintenance in the Philippines; Cadiz laughs this claim to
scorn. Manila claims that the decadence of the silk industry in Spain
is due to other causes than the importation of Chinese goods into
Mexico; and a large part of the raw silk produced in Spain is bought
by the industrial nations of Europe and manufactured into fabrics,
which are brought back to Spain by these foreigners to supply not only
that country but her colonies, the goods being shipped to the Indias
in Spanish bottoms. The royal fiscal at Madrid supports the contention
of Manila, but would confine its trade strictly to the amount allowed
it by the government; and he thinks that the complaints by Cadiz arise
from the frauds and abuses in the Manila trade, rather than from the
mere fact of its including Chinese goods. Manila proposes for the
conduct of the commerce a plan which will obviate the difficulties
therein, but this is opposed by the fiscal and other officials. Direct
appeal being made to the king, he consents (October, 1726) to test
this plan for five years. The remainder of Abreu's work will appear
in VOL. XLV.


    The Editors
    September, 1906.







DOCUMENTS OF 1700-1730


    Jesuit missions in the seventeenth century. Pedro Murillo
    Velarde; 1749.
    Condition of the islands, 1701. José Vila, O.P., and others;
    October 7, 1701.
    Events of 1701-15. [Summarized from Concepción's Historia
    de Philipinas.]
    The government and death of Bustamante. Diego de Otazo, S.J.,
    and others; 1719-20.
    Letter by a Spanish officer. Manuel de Santistevan; January
    28, 1730.


Sources: The first of these documents is compiled from Murillo
Velarde's Historia de Philipinas (Manila, 1749), using such parts as
directly relate to the missionary labors of the Jesuit order in the
islands; from a copy of the original in possession of Edward E. Ayer,
Chicago. The second is found in the Ventura del Arco MSS., (Ayer
library), v, pp. 201-230; and, in the fourth, Otazo's and Cuesta's
letters are found in iv, pp. 249-295. The third is summarized from
Concepción's Historia de Philipinas, viii, pp. 299-391; part of the
fourth is from ix, pp. 183-424; and the rest is obtained as stated
above. The fifth is translated from a MS. probably the original,
in possession of Edward E. Ayer.

Translations: These are all made by Emma Helen Blair.







JESUIT MISSIONS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

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