Volume 48 — DOCUMENTS OF 1751–1762
Reading edition
Usurpation of Indian lands by friars. Fernando VI; November 7, 1751.
Moro raids repulsed by Visayans. [Unsigned; 1755]
Augustinian parishes and missions, 1760. Pedro Velasco, O.S.A.; April 16, 1760.
Later Augustinian and Dominican missions. Antonio Mozo, O.S.A.; 1763. Bernardo Ustáriz, O.P.; 1745.
Events in Filipinas, 1739–1762. [Compiled from Martinez de Zúñiga and other writers.]
Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from La Democracia (Manila), November 25, 1901; the second, from a rare pamphlet published at Manila (1755), in the possession of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago; the third, from an original MS. in possession of Mr. Ayer; the fourth, from Mozo’s Noticia histórico natural (Madrid, 1763), and a rare pamphlet by the Dominican Ustáriz, both from copies in the Library of Congress; the fifth, compiled from Zúñiga’s Historia (Sampaloc, 1803), pp. 546–601, and Concepción’s Hist. de Philipinas, xi, pp. 89–237, fully annotated from other writers.
Translations: That of the third document is made by James Alexander Robertson; all the rest, by Emma Helen Blair.