Most of the documents in this volume are obtained from the Archivo
general de Indias, Sevilla. The original MSS. (from copies of which
our translations are made) are there preserved in two patronatos,
as follows:
(a) "Simancas-Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes
del gobernador de Filipinas, vistos en el consejo; años 1567 á 1599;
est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 6." To this belong Sande's report of 1576,
his letters of July 29, 1578 and May 30, 1579, Peñalosa's letter,
and the two documents of 1582.
(b) "Simancas-Filipinas; descubrimientos, descripciones y
poblaciones de las Yslas Filipinas; años 1566 á 1586; est. 1, caj. 1,
leg. 2|24." From this patronato we obtain Sande's report of 1577 (in
ramo 40), and the record of his expedition to Borneo (no. 48). The
former lacks a signature, and may be a duplicate copy, sent (as already
explained) by another vessel to ensure the arrival of at least one copy
in Spain, the signature being perhaps forgotten through some clerical
oversight; but its date and composition show it to be Sande's report.
The bull erecting the diocese of Manila is taken from
_Doc. inéd. Amér. y Oceanía_, xxxiv, pp. 72-79. The grant of
indulgences is obtained from Fray Francisco de Santa Inés's _Crónica
de la provincia de San Gregorio Magno_ (Manila, 1892), pp. 215, 216.
The two royal decrees are translated from copies of the originals,
which are found in the "Cedulario Indico" in the Archivo Histórico
Nacional at Madrid; their pressmarks are: for the decree of 1879,
"Tomo 31, F° 132b, n° 135;" for that of 1580, "Tomo 31, F° 193b, n°
184." The "Cedulario" contains forty MSS. volumes of these decrees,
with a calendar index of twenty-four volumes.