DOCUMENTS OF 1609_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 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

Laws regarding navigation and commerce. Felipe II and Felipe III;

1583-1609.

Jesuit missions, 1608-09. (From _Annuæ litteræ_; Dilingæ, 1610.)

Decree regulating services of Filipinos. Felipe III; May 26.

_Sources_: Two of these documents are taken from _Recopilación de

leyes_--the first from lib. ix, tit. xlv; the third, from lib. vi.,

tit. xii (ley xl). The second is obtained from _Annuæ litteræ_

(Dilingæ, 1610), pp. 507-532.

_Translations_: The first and third of these documents are translated

by James A. Robertson; the second, by Henry B. Lathrop, of the

University of Wisconsin.

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