Volume 27 — Documents of 1637
James Alexander Robertson translation
Defeat of Moro pirates. [Unsigned and undated; but probably written by Pedro Gutierrez, S.J., in 1637.]
Auditorship of accounts in Manila, 1595–1637. [Unsigned and undated; probably written in 1637.]
Conquest of Mindanao. Marcelo Francisco Mastrilli, S.J.; June 2.
Events in Filipinas, 1636–37. Juan Lopez, S.J.; July 23.
Corcuera’s triumphant entry into Manila. Juan Lopez, May–July.
Royal aid requested by the Jesuits at Manila. Francisco Colin, S.J., and others; July–August.
Letters to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; August 20.
Sources: The first, third, and fourth of these documents are obtained from MSS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the second and seventh, from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the fifth, from Barrantes’s Guerras piraticas, pp. 303–310; the sixth, from Pastells’s edition of Colin’s Labor evangélica, iii, pp. 757–758.
Translations: The first of these documents is translated by Arthur B. Myrick and Emma Helen Blair; the second, fourth, and sixth, by James A. Robertson; the third, by Helen E. Thomas; the fifth, by Alfonso de Salvio; the seventh, by Emma Helen Blair.