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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 47, 1728-1759: 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 47, 1728-1759: 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

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

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA

The documents in this volume are obtained from the following sources:

1. Santa Misericordia.--From Manifiesta y resumen historico de la
fundacion de la venerable hermandad de la Santa Misericordia (Manila,
1728), by Juan Bautista de Uriarte; from a copy in the possession of
Edward E. Ayer, Chicago.

2. Survey of the Philipinas.--From a MS. in the Museo-Biblioteca de
Ultramar, Madrid--pressmark, "24-4a.-1.735;" various plans in it are
here reproduced.

3. Order of St. John.--From Religiosa hospitalidad por los hijos del
... S. Ivan de Dios en Philipinas (Granada, 1742); from a copy in
the possession of Edward E. Ayer.

4. Letter to president of Council.--A copy, furnished by Sr. D. Roman
Murillo, Madrid, of the original MS., which he, as librarian of the
Academia Española, Madrid, found among other papers therein, this
being the only one relating to the Philippines.

5. Letter by a Jesuit.--From Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library),
iv, pp. 297-305.

6. Commerce of the Philipinas.--From a MS., either the original rough
draft or a contemporaneous copy, in the possession of Edward E. Ayer.

7. Relation of the Zambals.--From a certified copy--procured for us by
Sr. D. Manuel de Yriarte, chief of Division of Archives at Manila--of
the original MS., which is preserved in the archives of the convent
of Santo Domingo in Manila.

APPENDIX: RELATION OF THE ZAMBALS

By Domingo Perez, O.P. MS. dated 1680.

Source: A certified copy of the original MS., which is preserved in
the archives of the convent of Santo Domingo, Manila.

Translation: This is made by James Alexander Robertson.

RELATION OF THE ZAMBALS

RELATION OF THE ZAMBAL [81] INDIANS OF PLAYA HONDA, THEIR SITUATION AND
CUSTOMS. BY FATHER FRAY DOMINGO PEREZ, OF THE ORDER OF PREACHERS AND
VICAR-PROVINCIAL OF THE RELIGIOUS WHO ASSIST IN THE SAID MISSION. YEAR
OF 1680 [82]

The very reverend father, Fray Baltazar de Santa Cruz, prior-provincial
of this province of Santo Rossario of the Order of Preachers in these
Philipinas Islands, having visited the villages (which we have today
united and their inhabitants reduced to the said villages) and us two
ministers who for the space of nine months have been busied in the
reduction of said Indians, said reverend father provincial ordered
me to write a treatise on the site whence we have drawn the Indians
whom we have reduced, their customs, and mode of living.

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 47, 1728-1759: 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

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

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA

The documents in this volume are obtained from the following sources:

1. Santa Misericordia.--From Manifiesta y resumen historico de la
fundacion de la venerable hermandad de la Santa Misericordia (Manila,
1728), by Juan Bautista de Uriarte; from a copy in the possession of
Edward E. Ayer, Chicago.

2. Survey of the Philipinas.--From a MS. in the Museo-Biblioteca de
Ultramar, Madrid--pressmark, "24-4a.-1.735;" various plans in it are
here reproduced.

3. Order of St. John.--From Religiosa hospitalidad por los hijos del
... S. Ivan de Dios en Philipinas (Granada, 1742); from a copy in
the possession of Edward E. Ayer.

4. Letter to president of Council.--A copy, furnished by Sr. D. Roman
Murillo, Madrid, of the original MS., which he, as librarian of the
Academia Española, Madrid, found among other papers therein, this
being the only one relating to the Philippines.

5. Letter by a Jesuit.--From Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library),
iv, pp. 297-305.

6. Commerce of the Philipinas.--From a MS., either the original rough
draft or a contemporaneous copy, in the possession of Edward E. Ayer.

7. Relation of the Zambals.--From a certified copy--procured for us by
Sr. D. Manuel de Yriarte, chief of Division of Archives at Manila--of
the original MS., which is preserved in the archives of the convent
of Santo Domingo in Manila.

APPENDIX: RELATION OF THE ZAMBALS

By Domingo Perez, O.P. MS. dated 1680.

Source: A certified copy of the original MS., which is preserved in
the archives of the convent of Santo Domingo, Manila.

Translation: This is made by James Alexander Robertson.

RELATION OF THE ZAMBALS

RELATION OF THE ZAMBAL [81] INDIANS OF PLAYA HONDA, THEIR SITUATION AND
CUSTOMS. BY FATHER FRAY DOMINGO PEREZ, OF THE ORDER OF PREACHERS AND
VICAR-PROVINCIAL OF THE RELIGIOUS WHO ASSIST IN THE SAID MISSION. YEAR
OF 1680 [82]

The very reverend father, Fray Baltazar de Santa Cruz, prior-provincial
of this province of Santo Rossario of the Order of Preachers in these
Philipinas Islands, having visited the villages (which we have today
united and their inhabitants reduced to the said villages) and us two
ministers who for the space of nine months have been busied in the
reduction of said Indians, said reverend father provincial ordered
me to write a treatise on the site whence we have drawn the Indians
whom we have reduced, their customs, and mode of living.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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