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Contents of Volume XXII

• Preface 9
• Documents of 1625
  • Report of the Spanish Council of State on the appointment of a governor for the Philippines. Madrid, March 7. 27
  • Royal decree granting income to the Society of Jesus. Felipe IV; Madrid, June 1. 42
  • Letter from the archbishop of Manila to Felipe IV. Miguel García Serrano; July 25. 45
  • Royal festivities at Manila. Diego de Rueda y Mendoza; Manila, August 1. 50
  • Letter to Felipe IV. Fernando de Silva; Manila, August 4. 62
• Documents of 1626
  • Letter from the archbishop to Felipe IV. Miguel García Serrano; Manila, July 25. 83
  • Letter to Felipe IV. Fernando de Silva; Manila, July 30. 93
  • Letter from the sisters of St. Clare to Felipe IV. Jeronima de la Asunsion, and others; Manila, July 31. 104
  • Petition for aid to the seminary of San Juan de Letran. Juan Geronimo de Guerrero; Manila, August 1. 108
  • Royal decrees. Felipe IV; Madrid, June–October. 112
  • Military affairs of the islands. [Unsigned]; Sevilla, 1626 (but written at Cebú) 110
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• Documents of 1627
  • Importance of the Philippines. Martin Castaño; [undated; 1627?] 125
  • Relation of 1626. [Unsigned and undated; ca. 1627] 130
  • Letter to Tavora. Felipe IV; Madrid, September 3. 146
  • Laws regarding the Sangleys. [From Recopilación de leyes de las Indias]; 1594–1627. 151
  • Decrees regarding the religious. Felipe IV; Madrid, May–November. 160
  • Decrees regarding the Chinese. Felipe IV; Madrid, September 10 and November 19. 164
  • Inadvisability of a Spanish post on the island of Formosa. Juan Cevicos; Madrid, December 20. 168
• Documents of 1628–1629
  • Relation of 1627–28. [Unsigned]; Manila, July, 1628. 181
  • Report of appointments made by the governor. Juan Niño de Tavora; Cavite, August 2, 1628. 217
  • Letters to Felipe IV. Juan Niño de Tavora; August 4, 1628. 246
  • Economic reasons for suppressing the silk trade of China in Spain and its colonies. Juan Velazquez Madr^co; October 7, 1628. 279
  • Decrees regarding the Chinese. Felipe IV; Madrid, June, 1628–March, 1629. 287
  • Relations of 1628–29. Hernando Estrada, and others; Manila, etc., 1628–29. 293
• Bibliographical Data 321

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Illustrations

• Autograph signature of Fernando de Silva; photographic facsimile from original MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. 79
• Plan of the city and port of Macao; photographic facsimile of engraving in Bellin’s Petit atlas maritime([Paris], 1764) no. 57; from copy in the library of Wisconsin-Historical Society. 135