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Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume VIII (of 55), 1591-1593

Author: Emma Helen Blair

Release Date: October 14, 2004 [EBook #13742]

Language: English

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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 VIII, 1591-1593

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

Contents of Volume VIII

Preface ... 9
Documents of 1591

The collection of tributes in the Filipinas Islands
(_concluded_). Domingo de Salazar, and others; Manila,
January-March ... 25
Liberty of the Indians in the Philippinas. Gregory XIV;
Rome, April 18 ... 70
Articles of contract for the conquest of
Mindanao. Gomez Perez Dasmarinas and Estevan Rodriguez
de Figueroa; Manila, May 12 ... 73
Ordinance forbidding the Indians to wear Chinese
stuffs. G. P. Dasmarinas, and others; Manila, April
9-May 20 ... 78
Account of the encomiendas in the Philipinas
Islands. [G. P. Dasmarinas]; Manila, May 31 ... 96
Letter to Felipe II. G. P. Dasmarinas; Manila, June
20 ... 142
The fortification of Manila. G. P. Dasmarinas; Manila,
June 20 ... 169
Investigations at Manila concerning trade with
Macan. Melchor de Baeca, and others; Manila, May
23-November 19 ... 174

Documents of 1592

Opinions of the religious communities on the war with
the Zambales. Juan de Valderrama, and others; Manila,
January 19-20 ... 199
Letter of congratulation to the bishop, clergy,
an