Volume 35 — DOCUMENTS OF 1644–1649
Reading edition
Concessions to the Jesuits. Balthasar de Lagunilla, S. J., and others; 1640–44.
Events in the Philippines, 1643–44. [Unsigned and undated.]
Fiscal’s report on Sangley licenses. Sebastian Cavallero [de Medina]; 1644.
Decree ordering reënforcements for the islands. Felipe IV; September 18, 1645.
Erection of Santo Tomás into a university. Felipe IV and Innocent X; 1644–45.
Trade with English not desired. Council of State; January 30, 1647.
Affairs in Filipinas, 1644–47. Fray Joseph Fayol; 1647.
Decree regarding missionaries. Felipe IV; September 17, 1647.
Early Franciscan missions. [Unsigned; written in 1649.]
Sources: The first and eighth documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the second and seventh, from MSS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the fourth (its original from the same source), from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), ii, pp. 353–355; the third, from a rare and perhaps unique pamphlet (Manila, 1644), in the possession of Edward E. Ayer; the fifth, from Documentos relativos á la Universidad de Manila, pp. 23–30 (but the letter to Siruela, from a MS. in the Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid); the sixth, from a MS. in the Archivo general of Simancas; the ninth, from Retana’s Archivo, i, pp. [15–71].
Translations: The first, second, fourth and eighth are made by Emma Helen Blair; the third, fifth, sixth, and ninth, by James A. Robertson; the seventh, by Mary F. Foster and Emma Helen Blair.