Volume 35 — DOCUMENTS OF 1640–1644
Reading edition
The Dominican missions, 1635–39. Baltasar de Santa Cruz, O.P. [From his Historia del Santo Rosario.]
The Recollect missions, 1625–40. [From the works of Juan de la Concepción and Luis de Jesús.]
News from Filipinas, 1640–42. [Unsigned]; [1641], and July 25, 1642.
Decree regarding the Indians. Felipe IV; October 24, 1642.
Formosa lost to Spain. Juan de los Angeles, O.P.; March, 1643.
Letter to Corcuera. Felipe IV; August 4, 1643.
Sources: The first document is taken from Santa Cruz’s Historia del Santo Rosario (Zaragoça, 1693), pp. 1–23 (from a copy owned by Edward E. Ayer). The second, from Luis de Jesús’s Historia de los religiosos descalzos de San Augustin (Madrid, 1681), pp. 69–71, 163–173, 184, 282–287, 294–298 (from a copy owned by Edward E. Ayer); and Juan de la Concepción’s Historia de Philipinas, v, pp. 163–179, 360–391 (from a copy in the possession of the Editors). The third, from a MS. in the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid. The fourth, from a MS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The fifth, from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), ii, pp. 251–288; Ferrando’s Historia de los PP. Dominicos, ii, pp. 440–447; and Concepción’s Historia, vi, pp. 89–113. The sixth, from the “Cedulario Indico,” in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid.
Translations: The first three documents are translated by James A. Robertson; the fourth, by Victoria Peacock; the remainder, by Emma Helen Blair.
