Volume 25 — Documents of 1636
Reading edition
Discussion regarding Portuguese trade at Manila. Joseph de Navada Alvarado, and others; 1632–36,
Decree extending the tenure of encomiendas. Felipe IV; February 1.
Military services of Filipinos. Juan Grau y Monfalcon; June 13.
Conflicts between civil and ecclesiastical authorities, 1635–36. Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A.
Letter from a citizen of Manila to an absent friend. [Unsigned; Fabian de Santillan y Gavilanes?]; June 15.
Request for Jesuit missionaries. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; June 19.
Letter from the bishop of Nueva Caceres to Felipe IV. Francisco de Zamudio, O.S.A.; June 20.
List of prominent ecclesiastics in Manila and the islands. Hernando de Guerrero, archbishop of Manila; 1636.
Sources: All but three of these documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The second is from the “Cedulario Indico” of the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; the fourth, from Diaz’s Conquistas de las Islas Filipinas; the fifth, from a MS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid.
Translations: All but one of these documents are translated by James A. Robertson; the last is by Robert W. Haight.