Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholicmissions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditionsof those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century,
Volume XXI, 1624
Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.
Early Recollect missions in the Philippines. Andrés de San Nicolas, Luis de Jesús, and Juan de la Concepción. (Extracts from their respective works, covering the historyof the missions to the year 1624.) 111
Title-page of Historia general de los religiosos descalzos ... del gran padre ... San Augustin, by Andres de San Nicolas (Madrid, 1664); photographic facsimile from copy in library of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago. 109
Title-pages (the first engraved) to Historia general de los religiosos descalzos ... del gran padre ... San Augustin, by Luis de Jesús, Augustinian Recollect (Madrid, 1681); photographic facsimiles from copy in library of Edward E. Ayer,Chicago. 187, 189
Title-page of volume iv of Historia general de Philipinas, by Juan de la Concepción, Augustinian Recollect (Manila, 1788); photographic facsimile from copy in library of Harvard University.261
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Preface
This volume, dated 1624, is entirely devoted to religious matters, ecclesiastical or missionary in their scope. The currentdocuments for that year are concerned with conflicts between the diocesan authorities and the religious orders, and betweenthe civil and religious authorities in Manila; the defeat by the Audiencia of the late Governor Fajardo’s attempt to founda seminary for the training of Japanese missionaries to be sent to labor in their own country; and efforts by the Spanishgovernm