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 XLVIII, 1751-1765 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 MCMVII CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLVIII Preface 13 Documents of 1751-1762: Usurpation of Indian lands by friars. Fernando VI; San Lorenzo, November 7, 1751 27 Moro raids repulsed by Visayans. [Unsigned]; Manila, [1755] 37 Augustinian parishes and missions, 1760. Pedro Velasco, O.S.A.; Tondo, April 16, 1760 52 Later Augustinian and Dominican missions. Antonio Mozo, O.S.A.; Madrid, 1763. Bernardo Ustáriz, O.P.; Manila, 1745 59 Events in Filipinas, 1739-1762. [Compiled from Martinez de Zúñiga and other writers.] 137 Memorial of 1765. Francisco Leandro de Viana; Manila, February 10, 1765 197 Bibliographical Data 339 ILLUSTRATIONS