Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ 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 XLIX, 1762-1765 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 XLIX Preface 11 Documents of 1759-1765 Conquest of Manila by the English, 1762, and other events, 1762-1765 Plan of an expedition for the conquest of the southern Philippines. [Sir William Draper?; Canton, ca., 1759?] 27 Letters to Clevland. Admiral Samuel Cornish; Manila Bay, October 31, and November 10, 1762 44 Letter to Lord Anson. Admiral Samuel Cornish; Manila Bay, November 1, 1762 60 Letters to Earl of Egremont. Sir William Draper; Manila, November 1, and November 2, 1762 65 Draper's Journal. Sir William Draper; [Manila?], 1762 81 Rojo's Journal. Manuel Antonio de Rojo y Vieyra; Manila, December 23, 1762 104 Anda and the English invasion, 1762-1764. Simon de Anda y Salazar, and others; Manila and Bacolor, October 8, 1762-March 9, 1764 132 Rojo's narrative. Manuel Antonio de Rojo y Vieyra; [Manila, 1763] 176 Synopsis of letter to Cárlos III. Simon de Anda y Salazar; Manila, June 22, 1764 262 Letter to Cárlos III. Simon de Anda y Salazar; Manila, July 23, 1764 269 Letter to Gonzalez. Baltasar Vela, S.J.; Manila, July 24, 1764 288 Synopsis of communications to Cárlos III. Simon de Anda y Salazar, Manila, June-July, 1764 296 Draper's defense. In two parts. I. A plain narrative. [Sir William Draper; London, 1764?]. II. Colonel Draper's answer to the Spanish arguments. Sir William