Events in the Filipinas, 1637-38. [Unsigned; probably written by
Juan Lopez, S.J., in July, 1638.]
Letter to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; August 21.
Letter to Felipe IV, from the treasurer at Manila. Baltasar Ruiz
de Escalona; August 31.
Relation of the Filipinas Islands. Hieronimo de Banuelos y
Carrillo; 1638.
Glorious victories against the Moros of Mindanao. Diego de
Bobadilla, S.J., and others; 1638.
Royal orders and decrees, 1638. Felipe IV; March 15, and
September-December.
Fortunate successes in Filipinas and Terrenate, 1636-37.
[Unsigned; published in 1639.]
Value of Corcuera's seizures in Jolo. [Unsigned and undated;
probably 1638.]
Sources: The first and seventh of these documents are obtained from
MSS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the second and third,
and two of the decrees in the sixth, from MSS. in the Archivo general
de Indias, Sevilla; the rest of the sixth, from the Archivo Historico
Nacional, Madrid; the fourth, from Thevenot's Voyages curieux, t. i,
part ii--from a copy belonging to the library of Harvard University;
the fifth, from a book in the Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid;
the eighth, from Pastells' edition of Colin's Labor evangelica, iii,
pp. 528-533.
Translations: These are made by James A. Robertson--except the second
and part of the sixth, by Emma Helen Blair; and the fifth, by Arthur
B. Myrick.