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Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume II, 1521-1569

Author: Emma Helen Blair

Release Date: August 25, 2004 [EBook #13280]

Language: English

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803

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
beginning of the nineteenth century

Volume II, 1521-1569

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

Contents of Volume II

Preface
Expedition of Garcia de Loaisa--1525-26

[Resume of contemporaneous documents--1522-37]

Voyage of Alvaro de Saavedra--1527-28.

[Resume of contemporaneous documents--1527-28]

Expedition of Ruy Lopez de Villalobos

[Resume of contemporaneous documents--[1541-48]

Expedition of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi--1564-68.

[Resume of contemporaneous documents--1559-68]

Warrant of the Augustinian authorities
in Mexico establishing a branch of their
brotherhood in the Philippines--1564

Act of taking possession of Cibabao, Fernando
Riquel; Cibabao, February 15, 1565

Proclamation ordering the declaration of
the gold taken from the burial-places of the
Indians. M.L. de Legazpi; Cubu, May 16, 1565

Letters to Felipe II of Spain. M.L. de
Legazpi and others; Cubu, May 27 and 29,
and June 1, 1565

Letter from the royal officials of the
Filipinas to the royal Audiencia at Mexico,