Volume 29 — Documents of 1639–1640
Reading edition
Events in Philipinas, 1638–39. [Unsigned; probably Juan Lopez, 1639.]
Letters to the Holy Misericordia. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; December 4, 1637, and October 26, 1639.
The university of Santo Tomás. Felipe IV; November 9, 1639.
Royal orders and decrees. Felipe IV; 1639.
Events in the Filipinas Islands, 1639–40. [Juan Lopez?]; August, 1640.
Relation of the insurrection of the Chinese. [Unsigned and undated; probably in March, 1640.]
Ecclesiastical and Augustinian affairs, 1630–40. Casimiro Diaz; [1718?]. [From his Conquistas.]
Relation of the Filipinas Islands. [Diego de Bobadilla, S.J.; 1640.]
Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from a MS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the second, from a MS. volume in the library of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago; the third, and the eighth decree in the fourth, from the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the fourth (except the above-mentioned decree), from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; the fifth and sixth, from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library); the seventh, from Diaz’s Conquistas, pp. 267–444; the eighth, from Thevenot’s Voyages curieux, t. i, part ii—from a copy belonging to the library of Harvard University.
Translations: These are made by James A. Robertson—except the fifth, sixth, and seventh, and two decrees in the fourth, by Emma Helen Blair.