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Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898,
Volume XIII., 1604-1605

Author: Ed. by Blair and Robertson

Release Date: February 26, 2005 [EBook #15184]

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 XIII, 1604-1605

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

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIII

Preface 9
Relacion de las Islas Filipinas (concluded) Pedro Chirino, S.J.;
Roma, 1604 2
Documents of 1604

Letters to Felipe III. Pedro de Acuna; Manila, July 15
and 19 221
Decrees regarding religious orders. Felipe III, and others;
Valladolid, February-July 246
Grant to the Jesuit seminary at Cebu. Pedro Chirino;
[undated; 1604?] 251
Decree regulating commerce with Nueva Espana. Felipe III;
Valladolid, December 31 256

Documents of 1605

Complaints against the Chinese. Miguel de Benavides,
and others; Manila, February 3-9 271
Letter from a Chinese official to Acuna. Chincheo,
March 287
Letters from Augustinian friars to Felipe III. Estevan
Carillo, and others; Manila, May 4-June 20 292
Letter to Felipe III. Antonio d