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Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVII, 1609-1616
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

Author: Various

Editor: E. H. Blair

Release Date: April 3, 2005 [EBook #15530]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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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 XVII, 1609-1616

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
Bourne.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVII

Preface 9
Documents of 1609

Laws regarding navigation and commerce. Felipe II and
Felipe III; 1583-1609 27
Jesuit missions, 1608-09. (From _Annuae litterae;_ Dilingae,
1610.) 53
Decree regulating services of Filipinos. Felipe III;
Aranjuez, May 26 79

Documents of 1610

Petition of the Recollects. Dio