Volume 21 — Documents of 1624
Reading edition
Ecclesiastical affairs of the Philippines. Miguel Garcia Serrano, and others; 1574–1624.
Conflict between civil and religious authorities in Manila. [Unsigned and undated; 1624?]
Seminary for Japanese missionaries. Alvaro de Messa y Lugo, and others; July 23-August 5.
Extract from letter to Felipe IV. Miguel Garcia Serrano; August 15.
Royal orders regarding the religious. Felipe IV; August-December.
Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from Pastells’s edition of Celin’s Labor evangélica, iii, pp. 674–697; the second, from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), i, pp. 515–523; the others, from the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla—save the second of the “Royal orders,” from the “Cedulario Indico” of the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid.
Translations: The third document is translated by Robert W. Haight; the second part of the fifth, by Arthur B. Myrick, of Harvard University; the remainder, by James A. Robertson. [12]