Volume 22 — Documents of 1627
Reading edition
Importance of the Philippines. Martin Castaño; [undated; 1627?].
Relation of 1626. [Unsigned and undated; ca. 1627].
Letter to Tavora. Felipe IV; September 3.
Laws regarding the Sangleys. [From Recopilacion de leyes de las Indias]; 1594–1627.
Decrees regarding the religious. Felipe IV; May–November.
Decrees regarding the Chinese. Felipe IV; September 10 and November 19.
Inadvisability of a Spanish post on the island of Formosa. Juan Cevicos; December 20.
Sources: The first, fifth, and seventh of these documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the second, from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), vol. i, pp. 523–545; the third and sixth, from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; the fourth, from Recopilación de leyes de las Indias, lib. vi, tit. xviii.
Translations: These are all made by James A. Robertson, except the third, by Arthur B. Myrick. [114]