Documents of 1576-78_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 1576-1582 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 Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

Relation of the Filipinas Islands. Francisco de Sande; June 7,

1576.

Relation and description of the Phelipinas Islands. [Francisco

de Sande]; June 8, 1577.

Bull for erection of the diocese of Manila. Gregory XIII;

February 6, 1578.

Letter to Felipe II. Francisco de Sande; July 29, 1578.

Indulgence to those who visit Franciscan churches;

Gregory XIII; November 15, 1578.

_Sources_: These documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo de

Indias, Sevilla, excepting the papal decrees; the first of these is

from _Doc. inéd., Amér. y Oceanía_, xxxiv, pp. 72-79, the second from

the _Crónica de la provincia de San Gregorio_ of Fray Francisco de

Santa Inés (Manila, 1892), i, pp. 215, 216.

_Translations_: The first document is translated by Rachel

King; the second, by José M. Ascensio; the third and fifth, by

Rev. T.C. Middleton, O.S.A.; the fourth, by G.A. England.

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