The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 14 1606-1609

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Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XIV., 1606-1609 Explorations By Early Navigators, Descriptions Of The Islands And Their Peoples, Their History And Records Of The Catholic Missions, As Related In Contemporaneous Books And Manuscripts, Showing The Political, Economic, Commercial And Religious Conditions Of Those Islands From Their Earliest Relations With European Nations To The Close Of The Nineteenth Century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898
Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century,
Volume XIV, 1606-1609
Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIV

Preface 9 Documents of 1605
Complaints against the archbishop. Pedro de Acu?a, and others; Manila, July 1-4 29 Relations with the Chinese. Pedro de Acu?a, and others; Manila, July 4 and 5 38 Letters to Felipe?III. Pedro de Acu?a, Manila, July 1-15 53
Documents of 1606
The Dominican mission of 1606. Diego Aduarte, O.P., and others; 1604-06 81 The Dutch factory at Tidore. Joan ----; Tidore, March 16 112 The Sangley insurrection of 1603. Miguel Rodriguez de Maldonado; Sevilla, 1606 119 Letter from the Audiencia to Felipe?III. Telles de Alma?an, and others; Manila, July 6 140 Letter from the fiscal to Felipe?III. Rodrigo Diaz Guiral; Manila, July 149 The Terrenate expedition. Council of the Indias; San Lorenzo, August 5 and 15 173 Decree establishing a way-station for Philippine vessels on the California coast. Felipe?III; San Lorenzo el Real, August 19 182 Chinese immigration in the Philippines. Pedro Mu?oz de Herrera, and others; July-November 189 Letter to Acu?a. Felipe?III; Ventosilla, November 4 193
Documents of 1607
Petition for a grant to the Jesuit seminary in Leyte. Madrid, January 18 199 Artilltry at Manila in 1607. Alonso de Biebengud; Manila, July 6 201 Letter from Audiencia to Felipe?III, on the Confraternity of La Misericordia. Pedro Hurtado Desquivel; Manila, July 11 208 Trade of the Philippines with Mexico. Madrid, December 18 214 Passage of missionaries via the Philippines to Japan. Conde de Lemos, and others; Madrid, 1606-07 218
Documents of 1608-09
Annual receipts and expenditures of the Philippine government. Pedro de Caldierva de Mariaca; Manila, Aug. 18, 1608 243 Decrees regarding way-station for Philippine vessels. Felipe?III; [Aranjuez.], September 27, 1608, and San Lorenzo, May 13, 1609 270 Letters to Juan de Silva. Felipe?III; May 26 and July 29, 1609 278 Expeditions to the province of Tuy. Juan Manuel de la Vega; Passi, July 3, 1609 281 Petition of a Filipino chief for redress. Miguel Banal; Quiapo, July 25, 1609 327 Despatch of missionaries to the Philippines. Diego Aduarte, and others; [1608-09?] 330
Bibliographical Data 339

ILLUSTRATIONS
Aqvapolqve (view of harbor of Acapulco, Mexico); photographic facsimile of engraving in Levinus Hulsius's Eigentliche uund wahrhaftige Beschreibung (Franckfurt am Mayne, M. DC. XX), p. 60; from copy in library of Harvard University 103 View of Japanese champan; photographic facsimile of engraving in T. de Bry's Peregrinationes, 1st ed. (Amsterdame, 1602), tome xvi, no. iv--"Voyage faict entovr de l'univers par Sr. Olivier dv Nort"--p. 42; from copy in Boston Public Library 223

PREFACE
The documents here presented range from 1605 to 1609. Many of them concern the Chinese revolt of 1603 and its results, of which much apprehension still exists; but the threatened danger passes away, and the ordinances excluding the Sangleys from the islands are so relaxed that soon the Pari��n is as large as in 1603. The usual difficulties between the ecclesiastical and the secular authorities continue; and to the religious orders represented in the islands is added a new one, that of the discalced Augustinians, or Recollects. Acu?a conducts an expedition to drive out the Dutch from the Moluccas, and soon afterward dies. Various commercial restrictions hinder the prosperity of the islands; and the new fiscal, Guiral, complains of various illegal and injurious proceedings on the part of officials. The expenses of government are nearly double the amount of the revenues. The province of Cagay��n is explored by certain private adventurers, attracted by the prospect of gold-mines.
In July, 1605, several letters of complaint against the archbishop of Manila are sent to