DOCUMENTS OF 1616

Recommendations regarding the archbishopric of Manila. [Council

of the Indias?]; 1613-16.

Letter to Felipe III. Valerio de Ledesma, S.J.; August 20.

Portuguese and Spanish expedition against the Dutch, 1615. Juan

de Rivera and Valerio de Ledesma, S.J.; [1616?].

_Sources_: The first document is obtained from the original MS. in the

Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The second, and the first part of

the third, are found in the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), i,

pp. 403-429; the remainder of the third, in Colin's _Labor evangélica_

(Madrid, 1663,) pp. 802-810.

_Translations_: The first document is translated by Robert W. Haight;

the remainder, by James A. Robertson.

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