1766-1771
Financial affairs of the islands, 1766. Francisco Leandro de Viana;
July 10, 1766.
Letter to Carlos III. F. L. de Viana; May 1, 1767.
Anda's Memorial. Simon de Anda y Salazar; April 12, 1768.
Ordinances of good government. [Compiled by Governors Corcuera
(1642), Cruzat y Góngora (1696), and Raón (1768).]
Instructions to the secular clergy. Basilio Sancho de Santa Justa
y Rufina; October 25, 1771.
The expulsion of the Jesuits, 1768-69. [Compiled from various
sources.]
The council of 1771. [Letter by a Franciscan friar;] December
13, 1771.
Sources: The first of these documents is translated from a MS. copy
(probably official duplicate of above date), in possession of
Edward E. Ayer, Chicago; the second, from Viana's MS. book, Cartas
y consultas, fol. 39v-46, in possession of E. E. Ayer; the third,
from Pardo de Tavera's publication (with many annotations), Memorial
de Anda y Salazar (Manila, 1899), from a copy belonging to James
A. Robertson; the fourth (partly translated and partly synopsized),
from José Felipe Del-Pan's Ordenanzas de buen gobierno de Corcuera,
Cruzat y Raon (Manila, 1891), from a copy in the Library of Congress;
the fifth, from Ferrando's Historia de PP. dominicos (Madrid, 1871),
v, pp. 59, 60, from a copy belonging to E. E. Ayer; the sixth,
compiled from Danvila y Collado, Crétineau-Joly, and Montero y Vidal,
as indicated in the text--the archbishop's decree being obtained
from a printed copy (dated 1770) in the Archivo Historico Nacional,
Madrid; the seventh, from a copy of the original Latin MS. sent to
the Editors by a friend in Germany.
Translations: The text of the third, and of the fourth, is translated
by James Alexander Robertson; the seventh, by Rev. T. C. Middleton,
O.S.A.; the remainder, by Emma Helen Blair.