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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,
Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.
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Events in Filipinas, 1668. [Unsigned; Francisco de Figueroa?]; Manila, January 15, 1669 23 The Dominicans in the Philippines, 1641-69. Baltasar de Santa Cruz, O.P.; 1676. [From his Historia.] 64 The Augustinians in the Philippines, 1641-70. Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A.; Manila, 1718. [From his Conquistas.] 149 Manila and the Philippines about 1650 (to be concluded). Domingo Fernandez Navarrete, O.P.; Madrid, 1676. [From his Tratados historicos.] 285
Map of the Philippine Islands, showing province of the Order of the Hermits of St. Augustine; photographic facsimile of engraving in Lubin's Orbis Augustinianus ... ordinis eremitarum Sancti Augustini (Paris, 1639), map 37; from copy in Library of Congress. 147 Plan of Manila Cathedral prior to 1750; photographic facsimile from original manuscript in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. 201 Plan of Manila Cathedral, showing the new structure building in 1754; photographic facsimile from original manuscript in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. 205
Most of this volume is occupied with accounts of the Dominican and Augustinian missions in the islands during the period 1641-70; they are enabled to maintain fairly flourishing activities by the aid of new reënforcements. These chronicles also contain, as usual, much interesting secular information; the most important occurrences in the secular affairs of the islands are the rise and fall of Governor Fajardo's favorite Venegas, and the arrest of Governor Diego Salcedo by the Inquisition (at the instance of Auditor Bonifaz, who then usurps the government). The latter incident is related in detail by a Spanish officer imprisoned by the usurper.