The Philippine Islands - Volume L 1764-1800 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907. Excerpt: ... MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS, 1766-1771 Financial affairs of the islands, 1766. Francisco Leandro de Viana; July 10, 1766. Letter to Carlos III. F. L. de Viana; May 1,1767, Anda's Memorial-Simon de Anda y Salazar; April 12, 1768. Ordinances of good government. Compiled by Governors Corcuera (1642), Cruzat y Gongora (1696), and Raon (1768). Instructions to the secular clergy. Basilio Sancho de Santa Justa y Rufina; October 25, 1771. The expulsion of the Jesuits, 1768-69. Compiled from various sources. The council of 1771. Letter by a Franciscan friar; December 13, 1771. Sources: The first of these documents is translated from a MS. copy (probably official duplicate of above date), in possession of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago; the second, from Viana's MS. book, Cartas y consultas fol. 39V-46, in possession of E. E. Ayer; the third, from Pardo de Tavera's publication (with many annotations), Memorial de Anda y Salazar (Manila, 1899), from a copy belonging to James A, Robertson; the fourth (partly translated and partly synopsized), from Jose Felipe Del-Pan's Ordenanzas de buen gobierno de Corcuera, Cruzat y Raon (Manila, 1891), from a copy in the Library of Congress; the fifth, from Ferrando's Historia de PP. dominicos (Madrid, 1871), v, pp. 59, 60, from a copy belonging to E. E. Ayer; the sixth, compiled from Danvila y Collado, Cretineau-Joly, and Montero y Vidal, as indicated in the text-the archbishop's decree being obtained from a printed copy (dated 1770) in the Archivo Historico Nacianal, Madrid; the seventh, from a copy of the original Latin MS. sent to the Editors by a friend in Germany. Translations: The text of the third, and of the fourth, is translated by James Alexander Robertson; the seventh, by Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.; the remainder, by Emma Helen ...