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The Philippine Islands is a monumental 55-volume book by Emma Blair and James Alexander Robertson. It consists of primary source documents for Philippine history translated into English.

 

Electronic copies of the book in text format from Vol. I to Vol. 25 are available from Project Gutenberg, while scanned copies of the pages for the whole set are available from the University of Michigan Digital Library. (The UMDL service also allows you to extract the text.)

 

Since the UMDL does not have a general table of contents to all Blair and Robertson volumes, we provide them below.

 

Click on the particular volume to open the table of contents for that volume. The table of contents for each volume is linked to the correct pages on the UMDL website.

 

Please take note that we are not hosting the actual BR text itself. We would like to thank the University of Michigan for that.

 


 

Volume I: 1493-1529

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Volume II: 1521-1569

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Volume III: 1569-1576

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Volume IV: 1576-1582

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Volume V: 1582-1583

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Volume VI: 1583-1588

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Volume VII: 1588-1591

  • Preface 9
  • Documents of 1588
    • Relation of the Philippine Islands by Domingo Salazar 29
    • Letter to Felipe II from Santiago de Vera 52
    • Letter to Felipe II from Domingo Salazar 64
  • Documents of 1589
    • Excerpt from a letter from the viceroy of India 79
    • Letter to Felipe II from Santiago de Vera 83
    • Conspiracy against the Spaniards 95
    • Letter to Felipe II from Gaspar de Ayala 112
    • Instructions to Gomez Perez Dasmariñas 141
    • Customs of the Tagalogs (two relations) 173
  • Documents of 1590
    • Letter from Portugal to Felipe II 199
    • Decree ordering a grant to Salazar 205
    • Letter from members of the suppressed Audiencia to Felipe II 208
    • The Chinese and the Parian at Manila 212
    • Two letters to Felipe II from Salazar 239
    • Decree regulating commerce 262
  • The collection of tributes in the Filipinas Islands (to be concluded) 265
  • Bibliographical Data 319

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Volume VIII: 1591-1593

  • Preface 9
  • Documents of 1591
    • The collection of tributes in the Filipinas Islands (concluded) 25
    • Liberty of the Indians in the Philippines 70
    • Articles of contract for the conquest of Mindanao 73
    • Ordinance forbidding the Indians to wear Chinese stuffs 78
    • Letter to Felipe II from Dasmarinas 142
    • The fortification of Manila 169
    • Investigation at Manila concerning trade with Macan 174
  • Documents of 1592
    • Opinions of the religious communities on the war with Zambales 199
    • Letter of congratulation to the bishop, clergy and people of the Philippines 234
    • Letter to Felipe II from Dasmarinas 236
    • Expedition to Tuy 250
    • An embassy from Japan 260
    • Three letters to Felipe II from Dasmarinas 268
    • Luzon menaced by Japanese 284
  • Documents of 1593
    • Letter to Gov. Dasmarinas 301
    • Two royal decrees 312
  • Bibliographical Data 319

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Volume IX: 1593-1597

  • Preface 9
  • Documents of 1593
    • The second embassy to Japan 23
    • Two letters to Felipe II from Dasmarinas 58
    • Memorandum of troops required in the Philippines 74
    • Letter to the king of Camboja 76
  • Documents of 1594
    • List of Philippine villages reduced by the Spaniards 81
    • Letter to the king of Canboja 86
    • Investigation of the hospital 88
    • Report concerning the Filipinas Islands and other papers 95
    • Decree of despatch of missionaries 120
    • Reply to the Japanese emperor's letter 122
    • Three letters to Felipe II 137
  • Documents of 1595
    • Letter to Felipe II from Carbajal 147
    • Formation of new dioceses 150
    • Letter to Felipe II from Antonio Morga 154
    • Expedition of Camboja 161
    • Instructions to Figueroa 181
    • The Audiencia of Manila reestablished 189
    • Letter to Felipe II from Dasmarinas 193
  • Documents of 1596
    • Coat-of-arms of the city of Manila 211
    • Decree regarding the bishopric of Nueva Segovia 216
    • Instructions to Gov. Tello 218
    • Letter to Felipe II from Dasmarinas 259
    • Letter to Felipe II from Antonio Morga 263
    • Letter to Felipe II from Francisco Tello 274
  • Documents of 1597
    • Pacification of Mindanao 281
    • Memorial on navigation and conquest 299
    • Letter to Felipe II from Dasmarinas 315
  • Bibliographical Data 327

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Volume X: 1597-1599

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Volume XI: 1599-1602

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Volume XII: 1601-1604

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Volume XIII: 1604-1605

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Volume XIV: 1605-1609

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Volume XV: 1609

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Volume XVI: 1609

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Volume XVII: 1609-1616

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Volume XVIII: 1617-1620

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Volume XIX: 1620-1621

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Volume XX: 1621-1624

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Volume XXI: 1624

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Volume XXII: 1625-1629

  • Preface 9
  • Documents of 1625
    • Report to the Spanish Council of State on the appointment of a governor for the Philippines 27
    • Royal decree granting income to the Society of Jesus 42
    • Letter to the archbishop of Manila to Felipe IV 45
    • Royal festivities at Manila 50
    • Letter to Felipe IV from Silva 62
  • Documents of 1626
    • Letter to the archbishop of Manila from Felipe IV 83
    • Letter to Felipe IV from Silva 93
    • Letter from the sisters of St. Clare to Felipe IV 104
    • Petition for aid to the seminary of San Juan de Letran 108
    • Royal decrees 112
    • Military affairs of the islands 116
  • Documents of 1627
    • Importance of the Philippines 125
    • Relation of 1626 130
    • Letter to Tavora from Felipe IV 146
    • Laws regarding the Sangleys 151
    • Decrees regarding the religious 160
    • Decrees regarding the Chinese 164
    • Inadvisability of a Spanish post on the island of Formosa 168
  • Documents of 1628-1629
    • Relation of 1627-1628 181
    • Report on the appointments of made by the governor 217
    • Letters to Felipe IV from Tavora 246
    • Economic reasons for suppressing the silk trade of China in Spain and its colonies 279
    • Decrees regarding the Chinese 287
    • Relations of 1628-29 293
  • Bibliographical Data 321

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Volume XXIII: 1629-1630

  • Preface 9
  • Documents of 1629-1630
    • Decree regarding mission appointments in the Indias 23
    • Letter from Manila Dominicans to Felipe IV 26
    • Letters to Felipe IV from Tavora 29
    • Relation of 1629-1630 87
    • Letters to Felipe IV from Tavora 93
  • History of the Augustinian order in the Filipinas Islands (to be concluded) 119
  • Bibliographical Data 299

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Volume XXIV: 1630-1634

  • Preface 11
  • History of the Augustinian order in the Filipinas Islands (concluded) 29
  • Documents of 1630-1633
    • Royal letters and decrees 183
    • Letter to Felipe IV from the bishop of Cebu 188
    • Royal orders, 1632-33 192
    • Letters to Felipe IV from Tavora 197
    • Events in the Filipinas, 1630-32 229
    • Letter from the ecclesiastical cabildo to Felipe IV 245
  • Documents of 1633-1634
    • Papal bull concerning missions 263
    • News from the Far East 273
    • Letters to Felipe IV from Salamanca 279
    • Report to the archbishop on the bakery of Manila 295
    • News from Felipinas, Japon, and other parts 297
    • Letters to Felipe IV from Salamanca 301
  • Bibliographical Data 309

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Volume XXV: 1635-1636

  • Preface 9
  • Documents of 1635
    • Laws regarding navigation and commerce, 1611-35 23
    • Royal decrees, 1633-35 38
    • Memorial to the king, on the year 1635 48
    • Manila treasury accounts, 1630-35 74
    • Letter of consolation to the Jesuits of Pintados 87
    • Letter to Felipe IV from Sacramento 95
    • Letter from the Franciscan commissary-general of the Indias 98
    • Opinion of council and royal decree concerning request of Manila Jesuits for alms 100
    • Letter to Felipe IV from Arce 104
  • Documents of 1636
    • Discussion regarding Portuguese trade at Manila 111
    • Decree extending the tenure of encomiendas 145
    • Military services of Filipinos 148
    • Conflicts between civil and ecclesiastical authorities, I635-36 151
    • Letter from a citizen of Manila to an absent friend 201
    • Request for Jesuit missionaries 297
    • Letter from the bishop of Nueva Caceres to Felipe IV 301
    • List of prominent ecclesiastics in Manila and the islands 305
  • Bibliographical Data 321

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Volume XXVI: 1636

  • Preface 9
  • Documents of 1636
    • The nuns of St. Clare at Manila 19
    • Relation of I635-36 31
    • Letters to Felipe IV by Corcuera 60
    • Letter to Father Felipe de Cardenas 265
    • Letter to Felipe IV by Corcuera 269
    • Hospitals and hospital contributions 291
  • Bibliographical Data 315

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Volume XXVII: 1636-1637

  • Preface 9
  • Documents of 1636
    • Letter to Felipe IV by Corcuera 21
    • Letter to Corcuera from Felipe IV 36
    • Royal decrees 45
    • Informatory memorial addressed to the king 55
  • Documents of 1637
    • Defeat of Moro pirates 215
    • Auditorship of accounts in Manila, 1595 -I637 227
    • Conquest of Mindanao 253
    • Events in Filipinas, 1636-37 306
    • Corcuera's triumphant entry into Manila 330
    • Royal aid requested by the Jesuits at Manila 341
    • Letters to Felipe IV by Corcuera 346
  • Bibliographical Data 365

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Volume XXVIII: 1637-1638

  • Preface 9
  • Documents of 1637-38
    • Remonstrance of the Augustinians against the alternativa 21
    • Corcuera's campaign in Jolo 41
  • Appendix: Religious conditions in the Philippines during the Spanish regime
    • Laws regarding religious in the Philippines 67
    • Jesuit missions in 1656 78
    • The religious estate in the Philippines 104
    • Religious conditions of the islands 163
    • Ecclesiastical survey of the Philippines 192
    • Character and influence of the friars 226
    • The ecclesiastical system in the Philippines 266
    • Character and influence of the friars 290
    • The Augustinian Recollects in the Philippines 300
    • Present condition of the Catholic religion in Filipinas 349
  • Bibliographical Data 369

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Volume XXIX: 1638-1640

  • Preface 9
  • Documents of 1638
    • Events in the Filipinas, 1637-38 23
    • Letter to Felipe IV from Corcuera 50
    • Letter to Felipe IV from the treasurer at Manila 52
    • Relation of the Filipinas Islands 66
    • Glorious victories against the Moros of Mindanao 86
    • Royal orders and decrees, 1638 102
    • Fortunate successes in Filipinas and Terrenate, 1636-37 116
    • Value of Corcuera's seizures in Jolo 135
  • Documents of 1639-1640
    • Events in the Philipinas from the year 1638 to that of 1639 141
    • Letters to the Holy Misericordia 172
    • The university of Santo Tomas 175
    • Royal orders and decrees 178
    • Events in the Filipinas Islands from August, 1639 to August, 1640 194
    • Relation of the insurrection of the Chinese 208
    • Ecclesiastical and Augustinian affairs, 1630-40 259
    • Relation of the Filipinas Islands 277
  • Bibliographical Data 313

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Volume XXX: 1640

  • Preface 9
  • Commerce between the Philippines and Nueva Espana 23
  • Historia de la provincia del Sancto Rosario de la Orden de Predicadores (to be continued) 115
  • Bibliographical Data 323

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Volume XXXI: 1640

  • Preface 9
  • Historia de la provincia del Sancto Rosario de la Orden de Predicadores (to be continued) 23
  • Bibliographical Data 301

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Volume XXXII: 1640

  • Preface 9
  • Historia de la provincia del Sancto Rosario de la Orden de Predicadores (continued) 19
  • Bibliographical Data 299

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Volume XXXIII: 1519-1522

  • Preface 11
  • Primo viaggio intorno al mondo (to be concluded) (en) 26
  • Notes 273
  • Bibliographical Data 367

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Volume XXXIV: 1519-1522; 1280-1605

  • Preface 11
  • Primo viaggio intorno al mondo (concluded) (en) 26
  • Notes to Primo viaggio 153
  • Description of the Philippines by Chao Ju-kua 183
  • Documents of 1565-1576
    • Letter to Felipe II from Lavezaris 195
    • Letter to Felipe II from Mirandaola 200
    • Letter to Felipe II from Lavezaris 207
    • Letter to Felipe II from the royal officials 214
    • Letter to the Marquis de Falces 223
    • Letter to Felipe II from Diego de Herrera 229
    • Royal communications to and concerning Legazpi 236
    • Letter to the viceroy of Nueva Espana 256
  • Documents of 1565-1576
    • Augustinian memoranda 273
    • Letter to the viceroy of Nueva Espana 286
    • Letter to Felipe II from the royal officials 295
    • Encomiendas assigned by Legazpi 304
  • Documents of 1580-1605
    • Letter to the viceroy of Nueva Espana, Martin Enriquez 313
    • Letter to Gregory XIII 316
    • Bishop Salazar's council regarding slaves 325
    • Erection of Manila cathedral 332
    • Letter to Felipe II from Sedeno 361
    • Letter to Felipe II from Salazar 368
    • Relation of the Philipinas Islands 376
    • Letter to Felipe II from Roman 392
    • Letter to Felipe II from Dasmarinas 403
  • Documents of 1580-1605
    • Royal decree regarding hospitals for the natives 412
    • Augustinian affairs 415
    • Letter to Felipe II from the ecclessiastical cabildo 428
    • Letter to Felipe III from Maldonado 439
  • Bibliographical Data 451

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Volume XXXV: 1640-1649

  • Preface 9
  • Documents of 1640-1644
    • The Dominican missions, 1635-39 25
    • The Recollect missions, 1625-40 59
    • News from Filipinas, 1640-42 114
    • Decree regarding the Indians 125
    • Formosa lost to Spain 128
    • Letter to Corcuera from Felipe IV 163
  • Documents of 1644-1649
    • Concessions to the Jesuits 169
    • Events in the Philippines, 1643-44 176
    • Fiscal's report of the Sangley licenses 185
    • Decree ordering reenforcements for the islands 196
    • Erection of the college of Santo Tomas into a university 199
    • Trade with English not desired 209
    • Affairs in Filipinas, 1644-47 212
    • Early Franciscan missions 278
  • Bibliographical Data 323

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Volume XXXVI: 1649-1666

  • Preface 9
  • Documents of 1649-1658
    • Royal funeral rites at Manila 23
    • Royal aids for Jesuits asked by Manila cabildo 44
    • Condition of the Philippines in 1652 49
    • Jesuit missions in 1655 53
    • Letter from the archbishop of Manila to Felipe IV 63
    • Two Jesuit memorials, regarding religious in the Moluccas, and the Inquisition 68
    • Jesuit protest against the Dominican university 74
    • Description of the Philipinas Islands 87
  • Documents of 1660-1666
    • Recollect missions, 1646-60 109
    • Description of the Filipinas Islands 189
    • Events in Manila, 1662-63 218
    • Letter to Francisco Yzquierdo 261
    • Why the friars are not subjected to episcopal visitation 264
  • Appendix: Judicial conditions in the Philippines in 1842 279
  • Bibliographical Data 307

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Volume XXXVII: 1669-1676

  • Preface 9
  • Miscellaneous Documents, 1669-1676
    • Events in Filipinas, 1668 23
    • The Dominicans in the Philippines, 1641-69 64
    • The Augustinians in the Philippines, 1641-70 149
    • Manila and the Philippines about 1650 (to be concluded) 285
  • Bibliographical Data 307

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Volume XXXVIII: 1674-1683

  • Preface 9
  • Miscellanous Documents, 1674-1683
    • Manila and the Philippines about 1650 (concluded) 17
    • Condition of the clergy of the Philippines 72
    • Prerogatives of the ex-provincials granted to Augustinian procurators from Filipinas 76
    • Royal patronage extended to the university of Santo Tomas 78
    • Letter to Carlos II from Orellana 81
    • Insurrection by Filipinos in the seventeenth century 87
    • Dampier in the Philippines (to be concluded) 241
  • Bibliographical Data 287

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Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690

  • Preface 9
  • Miscellanous Documents, 1683-1690
    • Dampier in the Philippines (concluded) 21
    • Petition for Dominican missionaries 122
    • Events in Filipinas, 1686-88 131
    • The Pardo controversy 149
    • Official visitation by Valdivia 276
  • Bibliographical Data 303

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Volume XL: 1690-1691

  • Preface 9
  • Document of 1691
    • Events at Manila, 1690-91 21
  • Bibliographical Data 33
  • Appendix: Ethnological description of the Filipinos
    • Native races and their customs by Francisco Colin 37
    • The natives of the southern islands by Francisco de Combes 99
    • Letter on the Filipinos by Gaspar de San Agustin 183
    • The native people and their customs by Juan Francisco de San Antonio 296

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Volume XLI: 1691-1700

  • Preface 9
  • Documents of 1691-1700
    • Extracts from Jesuit letters 33
    • Discovery of the Palaos Islands 39
    • Recollect missions in the Philippines, 1661-1712 57
  • Bibliographical Data 273
  • Appendix: Moro pirates and their raids in the seventeenth century 277

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Volume XLII: 1670-1700

  • Preface 9
  • Miscellaneous Documents, 1670-1700
    • The Camacho ecclesiastical controversy 25
    • The Augustinians in the Philippines, 1670-1694 117
  • Bibliographical Data 313

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Volume XLIII: 1670-1700

  • Preface 9
  • Documents of 1670-1700
    • Dominican Missions, 1670-1700 27
  • Bibliographical Data 95
  • Appendix: Some later ethnological features of the Philippines
    • Preliminary note 99
    • Superstititions and beliefs of the Filipinos 99
    • The people of the Philippines 113
    • Jolo and the Sulus 128
    • Letter from Father Quirico More 193
    • Letter to Father Pedro Rosell 212
    • Letters from Father Mateo Gisbert 229
    • Letter from Father Pablo Cavalleria 255
    • Extract from a letter from Father Pablo Pastellas 268
    • Letter from Father Jose Maria Clotet 288
    • Present beliefs and superstitions in Luzon 310

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Volume XLIV: 1700-1736

  • Preface 11
  • Documents of 1700-1730
    • Jesuit mission in the seventeenth century 27
    • Condition of the islands, 1701 120
    • Events of 1701-1715 142
    • The government and death of Bustamante 148
    • Letter by a Spanish officer 196
  • Commerce of the Philippines with Nueva Espana, 1640-1736 (to be concluded) 227
  • Bibliographical Data 313

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Volume XLV: 1736

  • Preface 11
  • Document of 1736
  • Commerce of the Philippines with Nueva Espana, 1640-1736 (concluded) 29
  • Bibliographical Data 89
  • Appendix: Education in the Philippines
    • Letter from the ecclesiastical cabildo to Felipe III 97
    • The college of San Jose 101
    • The college and university of Santo Tomas 141
    • Royal college of San Felipe de Austria 170
    • Secular priests in the Philippines 182
    • Royal decree concerning native schools 184
    • College-seminary of San Felipe 187
    • College of San Juan de Letran 208
    • Law regulating marriages of students 218
    • Royal decree ordering the teaching of Spanish in native schools 221
    • Conciliar seminaries 223
    • Boys' singing school 244
    • Public instruction 246
    • Educational institutions and conditions 263
    • Privileges granted to students 279
    • Superior school of painting, sculpture, and engraving 282
    • Ateneo municipal 284
    • Educational suggestions 286
    • Public instruction 296
    • Girls' schools in Manila and the provinces 304
    • School of agriculture 315
    • Government reorganization of education in the university of Sto. Tomas 319

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Volume XLVI: 1721-1739

  • Preface 13
  • Documents of 1721-1739
    • Events in Filipinas, 1721-1739
  • Bibliographical Data 63
  • Appendix: Education in the Philippines
    • Primary instruction 67
    • Dominican educational institutions, 1896-1897 261
    • Report of religious schools, 1897 265
    • Educational institutions of the Recollects 268
    • The friar viewpoint 272
    • Education since American occupation 364

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Volume XLVII: 1728-1759

  • Preface 11
  • Documents of 1728-1759
    • The Santa Misericordia of Manila 23
    • Survey of the Filipinas Islands 86
    • The Order of St. John of God 161
    • Letter to the president of the India Council 230
    • Letter of a Jesuit to his brother 243
    • Commerce of the Philipinas Islands 251
  • Bibliographical Data 285
  • Appendix: Relation of the Zambals 289

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Volume XLVIII: 1751-1765

  • Preface 13
  • Documents of 1751-1762
    • Usurpation of Indian lands by friars 27
    • Moro raids repulsed by the Visayans 37
    • Augustinian parishes and missions, 1760 52
    • Later Augustinian and Dominican missions 59
    • Events in Filipins, 1739-1762 137
  • Memorial of 1765 197
  • Bibliographical Data 339

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Volume XLIX: 1762-1765

  • Preface 11
  • Documents of 1762-1765
    • Conquest of Manila by the English, 1762, and other events, 1762-1765
      • Plan of expedition for the conquest of southern Philippines 27
      • Letter to Clevland 44
      • Letter to Lord Anson 60
      • Letters to Earl of Egremont 65
      • Draper's Journal 81
      • Rojo's Journal 104
      • Anda and the English invasion 132
      • Rojo's narrative 176
      • Synopsis of letter to Carlos III 262
      • Letter to Carlos III from Anda 269
      • Letter to Gonzales from Vela 288
      • Synopsis of communications to Carlos III 296
      • Draper's defense 309
      • Letter to Rueda 333
      • Letter to Mesquida 336
    • References 343
  • Bibliographical Data 347

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Volume L: 1764-1800

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Volume LI: 1801-1840

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Volume LII: 1841-1898

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Volume LIII: Bibliography

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Volume LIV: Analytical Index to the Series, A-I

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Volume LV: Analytical Index to the Series, J-Z

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