The documents contained in this volume are obtained from the following
sources:
1. Jesuit missions.--From Murillo Velarde's Historia de Philipinas
(Manila, 1749); from a copy in possession of Edward E. Ayer.
2. Condition of the islands, 1701.--From Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer
library), v, pp. 201-230.
3. Events of 1701-15.--From Concepción's Historia de Philipinas,
viii, pp. 299-391; from a copy in possession of the Editors.
4. Government of Bustamante.--The first part is from Concepción,
ut supra, ix, pp. 183-424; the letters of Otazo and Cuesta are from
Ventura del Arco MSS., iv, pp. 249-295.
5. Letter from Santistevan.--From a MS., probably the original,
in possession of Edward E. Ayer.
6. Commerce of the Philippines.--From the Extracto historial (Madrid,
1736) of Antonio Alvarez de Abreu; from a copy in possession of Edward
E. Ayer.