Volume 24 — Documents of 1630–1633
Reading edition
Royal letters and decree. Felipe IV; December 4–31, 1630.
Letter to Felipe IV from the bishop of Cebú. Pedro de Arce; July 31, 1631.
Royal orders, 1632–33. Felipe IV; January–March, 1632, and March, 1633.
Letters to Felipe IV. Juan Niño de Tavora; July 8, 1632.
Events in Filipinas, 1630–32. [Unsigned]; July 2, 1632.
Letter from the ecclesiastical cabildo to Felipe IV. Miguel Garcetas, and others; [undated, but 1632].
Sources: The first and third documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid; the second, fourth, and sixth, from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the fifth, from a MS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid.
Translations: The fifth document, and the first letter each in the first and the third, are translated by Robert W. Haight; the remainder, by James A. Robertson.