Volume 29 — Documents of 1638
Reading edition
Events in the Filipinas, 1637–38. [Unsigned; probably written by Juan Lopez, S.J., in July, 1638.]
Letter to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; August 21.
Letter to Felipe IV, from the treasurer at Manila. Baltasar Ruiz de Escalona; August 31.
Relation of the Filipinas Islands. Hieronimo de Bañuelos y Carrillo; 1638.
Glorious victories against the Moros of Mindanao. Diego de Bobadilla, S.J., and others; 1638.
Royal orders and decrees, 1638. Felipe IV; March 15, and September-December.
Fortunate successes in Filipinas and Terrenate, 1636–37. [Unsigned; published in 1639.]
Value of Corcuera’s seizures in Jolo. [Unsigned and undated; probably 1638.]
Sources: The first and seventh of these documents are obtained from MSS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the second and third, and two of the decrees in the sixth, from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the rest of the sixth, from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; the fourth, from Thevenot’s Voyages curieux, t. i, part ii—from a copy belonging to the library of Harvard University; the fifth, from a book in the Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid; the eighth, from Pastells’ edition of Colin’s Labor evangélica, iii, pp. 528–533.
Translations: These are made by James A. Robertson—except the second and part of the sixth, by Emma Helen Blair; and the fifth, by Arthur B. Myrick.