The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55, 1582-1583

Volume 5 — Contents of Volume V

Reading edition

Preface 9

Documents of 1582

Letter to Felipe II. Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñalosa; Manila, June 16 23

Letter to Felipe II. Fray Domingo de Salazar; Manila, June 20 188

Letter to the viceroy. Juan Baptista Roman; Cabite, June 25 192

Letter to Felipe II. Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñalosa; Manila, July 1 196

Papal decrees regarding the Dominicans. Gregory XIII; Rome, September 15 and October 20 199

Report on the offices saleable in the Philippines. [Unsigned; 1582?] 202

Documents of 1583 Complaints against Peñalosa. Gabriel de Ribera; [1583?] 207 Affairs in the Philipinas Islands. Domingo de Salazar; [Manila, 1583] 210 [2] Instructions to commissary of the Inquisition. Pedro de los Rios, and others; Mexico, March 1 256 Foundation of the Audiencia of Manila (to be concluded). Felipe II; Aranjuez, May 5 274

Bibliographical Data 319

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Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas. Miguel de Loarca; [Arevalo, June, 1582) 34 Note 2 · Alonso Sánchez was born at Mondejar, in 1547; and became a novice in the Jesuit order (June 18, 1565), at Alcala. In 1579, he went to Mexico Note 3 · Thomas Candish, the English navigator, relates in picturesque style the fortunes of the Spanish settlement here referred to, “King Philips c